Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1920 — DR. BROCKWAY, LAFAYETTE PHYSICIAN, CONVICTED [ARTICLE]

DR. BROCKWAY, LAFAYETTE PHYSICIAN, CONVICTED

' the inrv find the defendant Charias J. Brockway guilty of involuntary manslaughter as charged and that his age is 32 years.” This was the verdict of twelve •f Tippecanoe county’s most representative citizens reached in the. circuit court on Saturday afternoon, twenty minutes after they retired to deliberate. * ■ * , Many criminal cases have been tfied in the local courts, but it is doubtful if ever a case attracted more attention than the prosecution of the Lafayette physician, and no verdict was ever rendered that appeared as popular with the public. As a result of the finding of the jury, Dr. Charles J. Brockway will serve from two to twenty-one yean m the Indiana state prison, unless he is granted a new trial, or on appeal the case is reversed. , . The crime .for which .he stands convicted was committed on the night of September 5, 1919. Shortly after 9 o’clock Ester Burgman Brockway, his wife. appeared at the rooms of Mrs. N. R. Howard in the Howard apartment house at 704 North Sixth street. She was in her usual health and inquired if her husband had come home. She went upstairs to tW Brockway apartment. A short time later she appeared again at the Howard apartment. Her face wag swollen and bruised. There was a large s lump over her left eye. Her lips were swollen And swelling on her face caused the nose to appear as.haying: been dislocated. She told a pitiful tale of a brutal assault on her by her husband. _ .. . . Dr. E. B. Ruschli Was called -to attend Mrs. Brockway and he.-«J-dered her taken to St. Elizabeth hospital, wherei in a short time rheumatic fever developed. She never improved, and on September 22, was taken to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Burgman, in Jackson, O. Her condition gradually grew vo«e.On October 17 she suffered a Stroke of paralysis and op October 21, she died.—-Lafayette Journal.