Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1916 — Short Sent Over Road For From Two to Fourteen Years. [ARTICLE]

Short Sent Over Road For From Two to Fourteen Years.

Stewart Short, confessed robber of Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store on the night of March sth, pleaded guilty before Judge Hanley Monday afternoon and was given a sentence of two to fourteen years. He will be taken to Jeffersonville at once. Borne time ago Short decided to plead not guilty but when the time came for his trial he had changed his mind and decided to plead guilty. Short had confessed to a number of other minor crimes and the reformatory will undoubtedly do him a great deal of good.