Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1913 — INNOCENT MAN IS CONVICTED [ARTICLE]

INNOCENT MAN IS CONVICTED

Benjamin Lucky About to Be Sentenced for Slaying, Another Confesses. Boston. —Benjamin Lucky of Birmingham, Ala., a circus attache, justified his name when, as he was about to be sentenced to prison for manslaughter, it was found that another man had confessed to the crime. Lucky was Immediately released. When a circus was in this city last June there was a clash between the paraders and several boys, and one of the latter was killed. Lucky was convicted of manslaughter. When he came up for sentence his counsel produced a confession from James Gaughan, an inmate of the state reformatory. The district attorney accepted the confession and canceled the case against Lucky.