Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1911 — White County Clerk Working On Transcript of Old Case. [ARTICLE]

White County Clerk Working On Transcript of Old Case.

Monticello Journal.' Deputy County Clerk Comer is busy on a transcript of a murder trial that was up in the White circuit court in 1850 when Ranson McConahay was clerk. Albert L. Cantwell and Spencer J. Dayton were indicted for the murder of David Jones. Both were found guilty and sent up for life. Just why the case is revived is not known to Mr. Comer or to Clerk Atkins. Illinois parties are looking after the matter. The indictment is written on the old style blue paper and is a marvel of legibility and neatness and from the mass of papers filed the case seems to have been closely Yought. Former U. S. Senator D. D. Pratt appeared for the defendants.