Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — CRIME RECALLED BY PLEA [ARTICLE]

CRIME RECALLED BY PLEA

Woman Asks Pardon of Brother Convicted of Killing Husband. Hartford City, Ind., July 10. —The death in 1904 of Preston Sanderson, a farmer, on the charge of whose murder bis wife, he? daughter, her two brothers and a half-brother, together with Samuel Emory, were tried, Was recalled when it became known Mrs. Sanderson was tiying to obtain a -pardon for her brother, William Cook. Cook, with his half-brother, Ernest Sanderson, was tried in Wells county. Both were given life sentences. Mrs Sanderson went to Bluffton to try to obtain the signatures of the jurymen who convicted him to a petition for his release. Otto Cook, another brother, received an indeterminate sentence and died in prison Mrs. Sanderson was tried here and acquitted. Her daughter, Clara Smith, was released without trial and Emory escaped by proving an alibi.