Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — SLAYER IS PAROLED [ARTICLE]

SLAYER IS PAROLED

Governor Ralston Releases State Senator’s Brother-in-liaw. Indianapolis, April 1 5.—-Governor Ralston this afternoon granted a parole to Anthony E. Trentman of Fort Wayne, brother-in-law of Stephen B. Fleming, state senator. Trentman, angered at a waiter in a hotel at Fort Wayne over an altercation as to whether his soup was split-pea 9oi)p or another sort, shot and killed H. C. Bruce, head waiter. The contention that his mind was deranged at the time of the shooting was one point on which the friends of Trentman based their plea. Trentman was a prominent business man at Fort Wayne. ■ -