Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1918 — TIPPECANOE COUNTY JURY FIND HORN GUILTY [ARTICLE]

TIPPECANOE COUNTY JURY FIND HORN GUILTY

The jury having under consideration the Clyde M. Horn murder trial at Lafayette, after taking four ballots brought in the following verdict about seven o’clock Friday evening: “We the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree and fix his punishment at imprisonment for life” were the startling and unexpected words that fell from the lips of Special Judge Geo. P. Haywood kt 8:10 last night when he read the verdict of the twelve men who had been selected to try Clyde N. Horn for the murder of Peter Mataxas, the Greek shoe shiner, on the morning of Oct 26, 1917.”