Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — TWO TO TWENTY-ONE [ARTICLE]

TWO TO TWENTY-ONE

Years For Killing Patrolman. — Prisoner Well Satisfied With Finding of Jury. Lebanon, Ind., June 30. —The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter last night, in the case of Albert Spohn, who killed patrolman Joseph Krupp at Indianapolis last April: It was also found that Spohn’s age was twenty. Judge Parr immediately pronounced sentence, and the prisoner will be taken to Jeffersonville tomorrow to serve a term of from two to' twenty-one years. ’. The defendant was well pleased with the verdict. His attorneys announced that there would be" no motion for a new hearing, and that the prisoner was ready to receive sentence. The jury was out four hours. It quickly decided that Spohn, under the evidence, was not guilty of murder in the first degree. Several ballots were taken, however, before the jury could agree between second and manslaughter. - ■ -