Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — SEEK PARDON FOR HER. [ARTICLE]

SEEK PARDON FOR HER.

Lafayette Residents Interested in Case of Murderess Serving Life Term. Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 5. —Aided by friends in this city, Mrs. Alice Cooper LawsOn, who is serving a life sentence in the Indiana Woman’s prison at Indianapoils for the murder of her husband, Charles A. Lawson, a saloon keeper, in this city, on September 21, 1906, has begun a fight for freedom. An application for pardon or parole, will be presented to the board of parole at its next meeting, in September, and Governor Marshall will also be asked to assist the woman in her effort to get out of prison. The Rev. Oscar R. McKay, pastor of the Baptist church, of this city, is circulating a petition in Lafayette in behalf of the woman and is getting hundreds of signatures. Mrs. Anderson Vick, the aged mother of Mrs. Lawson, is working night and day in her daughter’s behalf, and several well-known lawyers, including Will R. Wood and J. F. McHugh, are helping in the movement to obtain Airs. Lawson’s release. The woman shot and killed hei husband at this barroom one afternoon, claiming afterward that he had attacked her with a beer mug. .