Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1911 — McCOLLY AND BRANDENBURG GIVEN LONG SENTENCES. [ARTICLE]

McCOLLY AND BRANDENBURG GIVEN LONG SENTENCES.

Former Goes to Michigan City 2 to 21 Yean; Latter to Jeffenonvtlle 2 to 14 Years. The attention of the Jasper circuit court was taken Monday with the trial of Joseph McColly from up around Wheatfield, who was charged with incest, the prosecuting' witness being Lilly' Lena Kirzkie, his step-daughter. Prosecutor Longwell was here and handled the state’s case, tl^e ''defense by Moses Leopold. Mr. Leopold put up a vigorous fight for the defendant, and the trial showed the defendant to be addicted tti the use of morphine for the past nine years and of a very low degree of mentality, as were thfe rest of the parties concerned. The case went to the jury at six o’clock and their verdict was returned at about eight o’clock. They found him guilty of the offense charged, and fixed his age at 45 years. The judge fixed the penalty of a term in the state penitentary from 2 to 21 years. This morning William E. Brandenberg, from the same section of the. county, was arraigned in court for forgery, and plead guilty to the crime charged in the affidavit, and the court sentenced him to a term in the state reformatory from 2 to 14 years. The defendant stated that he had previously served a term in the state reformatory at Jeffersonville, when only 16 years old for stealing horses over in Benton county. I