Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1916 — FIRED WITHOUT PROVOCATION [ARTICLE]

FIRED WITHOUT PROVOCATION

Lafayette, December 13.—Michael Mulchey was the principal witness for the prosecution today in the Brock murder trial In the circuit court. Mulchey told the jury that he was with Henry Brock when Brock shot and mortally wounded Edward Manson, a colored school boy. | Mulchey said the deed was committed without provocation; that Manson simply brushed against Brock and that the latter, who had been drinking, drew a revolver and fired three times. One of the bullets passed through the boy’s body