Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — THIRTY YEARS FOR TWO CRIMES [ARTICLE]

THIRTY YEARS FOR TWO CRIMES

Murderer of a Woman, Whose Daughter Barely Escaped Death, 1* Let Off Easy.

Edwardsvllle, 111., Feb. 1. After being out twenty-four hours the jury in the case of Frank Greathouse, on trial for the murder of Mrs. Laura Bailey, of East Alton, and for an assault on her 18-year-old daughter Eliza, rendered a verdict of murder and fixed the punishment at thirty years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Bailey and her daughter were found lying unconscious in the road last June. The mother died, but the girl revived and accused Greathouse of having been their assailant.