Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts ot the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. ACQUITTED MURDER CHARGE. Day and Hubbard, Accused of Killing Melvin Rradrick, Not Guilty. Watseka, 111., Aug. 11—Roy Day and Joseph Hubbard were found not guilty today of the murder of Melvin Rradrick jin the woods near Crescent City last September. The defendants were round guilty in a former trial at the March term of court, but were given a new trial The acquittal on the second trial was due to the efforts of Sheriff James P. Ireland, who became convinced after the first trial that he had arrested the wrong men for the crime.