People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Train-Wreckers Up for Sentence. [ARTICLE]

Train-Wreckers Up for Sentence.

Terre Haute, Ind , May 14.—William Sourwinc, one of the five men Indicted for murder for causing the death of Engineer Mnehrmnn and Fireman Flnck by wrecking the Big Four train at Fontanet during the strike last July, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary yesterday on a plea of guilty. George Roberts, another of the wreck, ers, who gave the state valuable assistance in ferreting out the conspirators and who was given a verdict by a Jury of life imprisonment on a plea of guilty, but on whom sentence was not passed, was sentenced by the judge to eight years. The other three men men will be tried In June.