Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1908 — LOWELL MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER. [ARTICLE]

LOWELL MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER.

• A young man" at Lowell, going under the name of Albert Baker, was arrested Tuesday charged with having committed a murder near Circleville, Ohio, 1 * three years ago, where ho, lived and was known by his true name of Ernest Kerns. He had lived in Lowell about eighteen months, was well thought of, and last summer was married to Miss Vanda Cobb, a most estimable young lady of that place who is prostrated over her husband’s arrest. The Lowell Tribune says: "We understand that he told his father-in-law, Charles Cobb, who went to Crown Point to see him Tuesday afternoon, that he was the man and he also told him how it happened. He said that he was in a buggy and met this man in an automobile at which his horse too£ fright and ran away, breaking his buggy badly. On meeting the man he asked him what he was going to do about it, to which the man replied that he would do nothing. A fight occurred in which Kerns threw a stone, striking the man on the head, from the effects of which he died in about two weeks. If this is correct, manslaughter is the only crime of which he can be convicted.”