Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — ER PLEADS GUILTY [ARTICLE]

ER PLEADS GUILTY

; dyce Receives Penalty for Wealthy Marion J Resident. . Ind.,,Feb. 9. Sheriff Tony ill comtn it Cecil Fordyce, a /abash, Ind., bpy, to the Inite prison at Michigan City e latter will serve a term of sonment for having murdered Willcuts, a wealthy and’ t retiretj farmer of Grant it the Willcuts home in this he night ot 'iturday, Jan. 27. and jury, which has been inig the murder, returned an incharging Fordyce with homihe first degree. The young was immediately taken from vhere he has been a prisoner night of ,the murder, to the nirt room, where he was ar>efore Judge H. J. Paulus. answered Fordyce, when plead to the indictment, in hce of spectators who filled -oom. Fordyce had all along ed himself as being twentys old. At this time he told ulus he is only twenty years as up to Judge Paulus to dehe punishment of the mur--1 without the intervention of 'e court passed sentence of sonment.