Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1915 — Militiamen Interested In Case of Sergeant Ball. [ARTICLE]

Militiamen Interested In Case of Sergeant Ball.

State militiamen are much interested in the outcome of the courtmartial of Sergeant Edwin Ball, ordered by Governor Ralston. Ball shot and killed Private Walter Dowell at the national guard encapment in 1913. He was arrested on a charge of murder but the Marion county court dismissed the case, saying that it wasnot within their jurisdiction. This will be the first time a guardsman in time of peace has been called upon to stand trial for murder in this state.