Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1915 — Lawson Marder Trial Opened at Frankfort Today. [ARTICLE]

Lawson Marder Trial Opened at Frankfort Today.

The trial <rf the state vs. Charles Lawson opened m the Clinton county court at Frankfort today for the murder of August Scallon, the Delphi nightwatch. The trial was to have started Monday, but was continued on account of the suit for the reward money offered by Carroll county for the capture of Lawson not being concluded Saturday. Attorney Robert C. Pollard, of Delphi, was appointed to defend Lawson and he expressed a willingness to have his client plead guilty to manslaughter, but the state would not accept the plea. The prosecution will demand that the death sentence be imposed. The state has insisted on trying Lawson for the crime of firrt degree murder, and premeditation will be charged. Attorneys for the state will charge that Nightwatch Scallon ordered the youth off the street and that Lawson returned to take up the dispute with him and that it was during the altercation that followed that Lawson drew his revolver and fired the shot that killed Scallon. The deep feeling aroused ?n Delphi is evidenced in the fact that the large array of legal talent that has been secured to assist Prosecutor Brockway.

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The small son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Ferguson, of Monon, was run over by an automobile Monday evening, driven by the owner of the telephone company of that place. The boy was playing with his sled in the street when the accident occurred. His right leg was broken just above the knee.

The Pulaski County Democrat relates of a new kind of swindle that is being worked on automobile owners in that section. A man comes to town, purchases parafine oil at 30 cents a gallon, colors it slightly, and then sells it as automobile polish at $1.50 a gallon. The polish makes the car ook like new for a few minutes, but after that it catches all the dust in sight and there seems to be no way to remove it but to let it gradually wear off.