Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — DESIRE FOR JAIL SATISFIED [ARTICLE]

DESIRE FOR JAIL SATISFIED

Counterfeiter Telle Judge He Aimed to Get Term In Prison. Cincinnati, Oct. B.—Confessing he had made and passed counterfeit money, William B. Pettus, formerly a school teacher, was sentenced to thirty months in prison. Pettus told the judge he entered the counterfeiting business because he wanted to get into jail “to keep from starving.”