Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1916 — BOY SLAYERS SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IN PRISON [ARTICLE]

BOY SLAYERS SENTENCED TO 14 YEARS IN PRISON

Charles Witham and Joseph Marek, Who Tortured Aged Man, ..Sent to Joliet. Charles M. Witham and Joseph F. Marek, covnicted murderers of Joseph Osborne, Whom they tortured to death trying to make him reveal the hiding place of his valuables, were sentenced to fourteen years- each in the penitentiary Saturday by Judge Thomson in Chicago. Neither boy is over 16 years old.