Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — NEGRO GETS LONG TERM [ARTICLE]

NEGRO GETS LONG TERM

Two to Twenty-One Years for Assault on White Girl. Brazil, Ind., Sept. 22. —Frank Herron, colored, was sentenced to two to twenty-one years by Judge John Rawley for a criminal assault on seven-teen-year-oldi Bessie Stout, white, an orphan, living west of the city. Herron coaxed the girl into his room, saying his wife wanted to see her, and kept her there under lock and key several hours. Afterward he went out on the street and offered to sell her to other negroes for 52. The police found the girl in the rear of Will Cook’s saloon in a state of nervous prostration. Herron was arrested and the police kept him dark until he was slipped into court and sentenced.