Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1911 — WALKER GOES UP FOR LIFE [ARTICLE]

WALKER GOES UP FOR LIFE

Case of Warren, Companion of Alexandria Bandit, Follows Jury Action. Anderson, Ind., April 7. —“It was better than I expected," said James Walker, the Alexandria bandit, when the jury in the circuit court returned a verdict that he should spend the remainder of his natural life behind the prison bars. It is. not known how the jury stood in the various ballots while they were out, but rumor has it that on the first ballot the vote stoon seven for hanging and five for life imprisonment. Ten minutes after the Jury In the Walker case had been discharged Rufus Warren, the companion of Walker, was brought into court and the work of impaneling another jury was begun.