Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — He Is Also a Convicted Criminal. [ARTICLE]

He Is Also a Convicted Criminal.

i'alias, Texas, Oct. 23.—The jury m the ease of O. H. Alexander brought in a verdict of guilty and assessed the punishment at five years in the penitentiary. Alexander, the defendant, was charged with arson in hiring a man to burn a building in this city in December, 18!)5, on which there was $15,000 insurance. lie was formerly president of the Dallas Consolidated Street Railway and is now head of one of the biggest of the Beaumont oil companies.