Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — GLAD TO GET A LIFE TERM [ARTICLE]

GLAD TO GET A LIFE TERM

Youth Is Sentenced to Prison While Expecting to Be Hanged. Marion, Ind., Feb. 7. —Cecil Fordyce, 20 years old, who killed Cl'arkson Willcuts, a wealthy reared farmer, in an attempted holdup, was indicted today for first degree murder. Then on his plea of guilty ho wais sentenced to life imprisonment. He said he was satisfied with the sentence, as he had expected to be hanged. His father lives in Derma, Miss. The boy slew Willcuts eleven days ago;