Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1913 — Mulberry Man Sentenced For Life for Murder. [ARTICLE]

Mulberry Man Sentenced For Life for Murder.

Levi Ehresman, formerly of Mulberry, Clinton county, where his parents were prominent people, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the murder of John Nicholson, an automobile dealer at Los Angeles, CaL Ehresman was engaged in the meat business. He bought an automobile of Nicholson and paid him SI,OOO down. When the balance fell due he could not pay. He turned the auto over to Nicholson, telhng him to get what he could out of It and keep what was due and give him the balance. Nichilson sold the machine for SI,OOO and took Ehresman out for a ride to settle the affair. They got into a dispute and Ehresman killed Nicholson and then pulled the body into a barn and set fire to the barn. He was later arrested and after denying knowledgeoflt for a time, he weakened and confessed the killing. He entered upon a life sentence last week. He was born and raised and is' a son of Jacob Ehresman, of that place.