Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1910 — GIRL’S ASSAILANT IS GUILTY [ARTICLE]

GIRL’S ASSAILANT IS GUILTY

Prisoner on Way to Servo Life Term] Two Hours After Verdict | - Bloomfield, Ind., March 11.—After, deliberating only ten minutes the'jury in the Greene circuit court returned a verdict of guilty in the ease of the state against Don McCammon, charged with assault, the penalty being life imprisonment. Judge Charles E. Henderson immediately sentenced the prisoner, and two hours later McCammon, in charge of Deputy Sheriff Harley Inman, was on his way to Jeffersonville. The crime was committed near Sullivan last December and the victims were Eva Purcell and Ora Peeler, 9 and 11 years old, respectively. This ie the first case of this nature sineg the last general assembly fixed the punishment at life imprisonment