People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — Sensation In Spring Valley Case. [ARTICLE]

Sensation In Spring Valley Case.

Princeton, 111., Oct. 31. —Raymon Jordin, one of the defendants in the case of the thirteen Spring Valley men charged with assaulting the colored population of that city, caused a sensation in the trial of the case yesterday by turning state’s evidence and later by notifying Judge Stipp in court that he wished to plead guilty to the third count of the indictment, the maximum penalty for which is a penitentiary offense. Jordin placed a written confession in the hands of the state's attorney. He tells of the assaults and names Paul Yerdy and John Tista, two more of the defendants now on trial, as being members of the mob. He also accused Mayor Delmargo of knowing the designs of the mob. The time of the court yesterday was taken up in examining veniremen and one person was accepted, making the total number now accepted eleven.