Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In the District Court at San Antonio a sentence of one year In the penitentiary at Chester, Illinois, was pronounced by Judge Turner against Nelson Plato, whose accounts as Collector of Customs for the District of Corpus Christi showed a deficit of $l,lOO. Two years ago his bondsmen made good the shortage, with the understanding that the prosecution would be dropped. C. S. Presley, proprietor of the Magnolia House at Pine Bluff, Ark., who killed Frank Brigham, of New York, has boea sentenced to be executed Juno 25. James Baxter was executed at Lebanon, Ten a, for the murder of Mrs. Lane. Wesley Honesty and Tabley Banks were hanged at Winchester, Va., for killing Joseph McFauL