Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1915 — Lawson Murder Trial Attracting Much Attention. [ARTICLE]

Lawson Murder Trial Attracting Much Attention.

The Lawson murder trial which started at Frankfort Tuesday, is attracting a great deal of attention. Oscar Lawson, brother of the accused, took the stand Wednesday for the state. He told about the movements of the party in Lafayette on the nigh of the murder; how they visited saloons and did more or less drinking, and about his brother having bought a box of cartridges, and how they boarded a Wabash train for Delphi, arriving early in the morning, and what followed. Charles Friend, Vance Lawton and Louis Wendling, other members of the gang, were put on the stand by the state but their evidence did not differ materially from that of Lawson. Mrs. August Scallon, widow of the murdered man, was present at the proceedings, and during the description of the autopsy performed upon the body of Scallon, she became hysterical, necessitating the adjournment of court until she could be quieted. She screamed shrilly, arising to her feet, rushed forward and fell upon her face and lay moaning and crying alloud until men reached her side.