Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1919 — SLAYER OF POLICEMAN IS GRANTED A PARDON. [ARTICLE]

SLAYER OF POLICEMAN IS GRANTED A PARDON.

Monticello Journal——— Charles F. Lawson, of Delphi, who shot and killed a policeman at Delphi on the night of October 13, 1915, and who was tried in the circuit court at, Frankfort on a charge of first degree murder, ' has been finally discharged from the state reformatory at Jeffersonville. Lawson, in company with several young men, was loafing about Delphi waiting for a train back to his home in Lafayette after having stolen a ride on a freight train to the town. When accosted by the town marshal . and arrested for loitering, a fight ensued. In making his escape from the policeman, the three men put up a fight and Lawson fired several shots, all of which found their mark in the officer’s body. He died the following day. Lawson asked a change of venue from the Carroll county court and the case was, sent to Frankfort for trial. The case was tried in the circuit court and on December 20, 1915, a verdit was returned charging manslaughter. He was sentenced to serve a term of two to twenty-one years. The prisoner was granted a pardon yesterday on the recommendation of the superintendent of the state reformatory.