Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1906 — Bank Robber Sentenced. [ARTICLE]

Bank Robber Sentenced.

Great Bend, Ind., Dec. 20.—Joseph 8. Kerns, the former Chicago drygoods clerk nnd newspaper man, captured here recently after holding up n local hank In daylight, was arraigned, pleaded guilty nnd was sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of from ten to twenty-one years.