Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1919 — To Ask Death Penalty. [ARTICLE]

To Ask Death Penalty.

Indianapolis, July H.t— The state will ask for, a verdict of murder in the first degree and the death sentence in the case of Roger L. Walters, who was placed on trial in the criminal court for killing Dan Houston, col-, ored, an employee of the Morton Place garage on April 16 last Walters shot Houston just before rifling the cash register in the garage. The colored man died within a few hours.