Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — STRENUOUS PEOPLE IV IOWA [ARTICLE]

STRENUOUS PEOPLE IV IOWA

Boy of 17 Tears Don Not Want To Bo Considered Dull, So. He Does ( Things. Oskaloosa, la., Sept. 10. Jimmy Seibert a 17-year-old farm boy, murdered a man named Nelson near Osknloosa in a spirit of frenzied determination to avenge an alleged rape on bis sister some months ago by an organ salesman namedChns.Carpenter. Carpenter, who is out on bonds pending a supreme eourt appeal against conviction, drove Into Seibert's farm yard, accompanied by Nelson, an innocent farm hand. Women of the Seibert family became hysterical when they sutv Carpenter, the father seized a shotgun and began tiring at Carpenter, and Jimmy Seibert started after Nelson, who ran down the highway, where Carpenter eluded the father, but the son jumped into the buggy and chased Nelson until he overtook him and shot him in the back twice, killing him.