Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — LIFE TERM FOR ALL THREE MEN [ARTICLE]

LIFE TERM FOR ALL THREE MEN

Valparaiso, Ind., Oct. I.—Three men on trial for the murder of Herman Uecker, cashier of the Tolleston, Indiana, state bank on June 14, 1919, were sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary today when they .changed their pleas from not guilty to that of guilty. The men were Albert Batchelor, James N. Parker and Dan Trkulja. . Thomas Batchelor ,who was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury’ Thursday was also sentenced to life imprisonment. He was also tried for Uecker’s murder. The cashier was killed when a bandit gang attempted to rob the bank at Tolleston. The four men were arrested and were sentenced to death in the electric chair after a trial in the circuit court at Crown Point. The supreme court granted a new trial and the cases were brought here from Lake county on a change of venue.