Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — Lafayette Woman Who Murdered Husband is Seeking Release. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Woman Who Murdered Husband is Seeking Release.

On Sept. 21, 1906, Chas. A. Lawson, a Lafayette saloonkeeper, was murdered by his wife in the saloon. The following April she was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Her attorney, Will R. Wood, and Rev. Oscar McKay, pastor of the First Baptist church, are preparing to make a flght for her liberty. It is asserted that Mrs. Lawson has been completely transformed since going to prison. She is a model prisoner and has worked hard in the prison laundry ever since she arrived there