Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1911 — SAYS FRIENDS ARE TO BLAME [ARTICLE]

SAYS FRIENDS ARE TO BLAME

Man Seeking Pardon Says Others Caused Victim’s Death. - Richmond, Jpd . Feb. ,10. —In a letter to Judge Henry C. Fox, John Kr.app. of Hagerstown, who is now serving a life sentence in the, penitentiary fol the murder of Lennie Geisler, marsha’ of Hagerstown, in 1905, seeks the assistance of the judge to get him : pardon. He says the blow he gave Geisler was only contributory to his death Knapp says that though it ; did no come out in the evidence, yet it i: nevertheless true that Geisler’: friends took him to the town pum; after he was injured and there pr cold water on his wounds, whicl caused a fatal, blood clot to form

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