Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — CONVICT TO RETURN HOME [ARTICLE]

CONVICT TO RETURN HOME

Indiana Man Receives Clemency at Hands of Ohio Governor. Columbus, 0.. Dec. 1. —The Thanksgiving pardon from the governor of Ohio went this year to Charles V. Sherman of Rushville, Ind., who was received at the penitentiary in ’January, 1905, to serve a life sentence for the killing of his wife, Effie May Sherman. at Hamilton. He was convicted of second degree murder Sherman, who is a railroad man, re .turned home one night and tried to caress his wife. It is said she had a bad temper and struck him A quarrel ensued and he hit her with a chair, killing her. Overcome with remorse Sherman then tried to kill himself. One of the conditions of Sherman’s pardon is that he return to Rushville. Ind., where his mother lives He is thirty-six years pld The pardon for Sherman was recommended by many influential Indiana men.