People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Could Not Agree on a Verdict. [ARTICLE]

Could Not Agree on a Verdict.

Versailles, Ky., March 3.—The jury iD the case of the state against W. N. Lane, of Lexington, indicted for killing H. C. Rodenbaugh and his son, disagreed and were discharged, after being out three days. The killing occurred in Rodenbaugh’s hotel, where Lane was a guest. Lane got into a wordy quarrel with th# eldfer Rodenbaugh and shot him dead. Young Rodenbaugh ran to his father’s rescue, whereupon Lane shot him, inflicting wounds from which he soon died. There were threats of lynching Lane shortly after the murder.