Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — SAW HIS FATHER MURDERED [ARTICLE]

SAW HIS FATHER MURDERED

Twelve-Year-Old Boy Testifies in Trial at Chicago. Chicago, April 30.—Ira Witte, twelve years old, was the principal witness in the trial of Daniel Rodgers, forty years old, charged with killing the boy’s father. The youth witnessed the killing of his father and on the stand told of efforts he made to settle a fist fight between his father and the defendant, which ended in the fatal stabbing of his parent. „