Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — DECLARES MURDERER INSANE [ARTICLE]

DECLARES MURDERER INSANE

Attorney for Negro Saved from rGa!lows Visits Governor. I Indianapolis, Feb. 2. Hartwell S. Green, a colored attorney of Gary, conferred with Governor Marshall concerning George Davis, the colored murderer who was saved from the gallows Tuesday by a commutation of his sen- 1 tence to life imprisonment. Green, ; who represented the murderer at his trial, declared that Davis is insane and has been so since before the time of the murder of a young negress at Gary. 1 Governor marshall told the attorney that whether the. man would be declared insane depended on the report of the examining board or the physician at the state prison. The governor also declared that there could be no change from the provision of the commutation that the negro be kept at hard work for life with no pos- 1 slbility of further clemency.