Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — WIFE SLAYER SENTENCED [ARTICLE]

WIFE SLAYER SENTENCED

Weeps Tears of Joy When Given Life Term in Penitentiary. John Glascoe, of Muncie Ind., who shot and wounded his wife arid then beat her to death, waived trial and pleaded guilry to a charge of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Glascoe wept with joy when sentence was pronounced. A pathetic figure in the courtroom was the murderer’s son Mark, an electrician in the United States navy, just home from the cruise around the world with the battleship fleet, and who had heard nothing of the family tragedy until he arrived in Muncie.