People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — GIVEN TWENTY YEARS. [ARTICLE]

GIVEN TWENTY YEARS.

Texas Man Spends His Fortune In an Es. fort to Kscape Punishment. Dallas, Tex., March 27.— The Randle murder trial terminated Saturday night by, the jury returning a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and assessing the penalty at twenty years’ confinement in the state penitentiary. In December, 1892, Maj. Irving G. Randle, one of Dallas wealthiest men, shot and killed E. S. Randall in a saloon. The widow of the murdered man was paid $5,000 to cease prosecuting Randle, and all that money, legal talent and influence could do was resorted to. Maj. Randle has spent $120,000 and it is said that his fortune has been frittered away.