Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1904 — Wife Murderer Sentenced. [ARTICLE]

Wife Murderer Sentenced.

Charleston, 111., Jan. 25.—W. K, Ilonn. aged 25, was found guilty of wife murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for from five to twenty years by Judge Thompson. Tbe prisoner is a son of W. S. llonn, a banker of Ashmore. It is charged that he betrayed Mabel Galbreatb, a playmate from his youth up, and, after being compelled to marry her, caused her death by poison administered for the purpose of producing abortion.