Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. SENTENCE ROBBERS OF BANK ti _____ Plead Guilty to Burglary Charge Day After Covington Holdup. Covington, October 7.—Two bank robbers, who were captured here late yesterday afternoon, thirty minutes after they had fled from the Citizens’ bank wjth about $1,400, plead guilty in the Fountain circuit court this morning to a charge of burglary, and each was sentenced by Judge Schoonover to a term of from five to fourteen years. The men gave their names as William A. Dixon, aged 34, of Toronto, and Ewalt Crescent, age 17, of Detroit. Their attempt to rob the bank, their capture and their punishment occurred within eighteen hours.