Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — MURDERER TAKES OWN LIFE [ARTICLE]

MURDERER TAKES OWN LIFE

Crown Point. Ind., Sept. 22. — John Lane, slayer of Jimmy Leathers pf Cedar Lake, yesterday sliced his throat with a razor at the county jail and died a few minutes later. Lane was discovered on the floor of his cell in a pool of blood shortly after three o’clock. He had been indicted today by the grand jury for the attempted murder of Marshal Ben Berg of St. John with whom he had a revolver battle while trying to escape following the shooting of Jimmy Leathers in the latter’s saloon. Lane was an honor prisoner at Joliet and escaped over, a month ago.