People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Wife Murderer Acquitted. [ARTICLE]

Wife Murderer Acquitted.

Indianapolis, Ind., March 3. —Alonzo Rooker, who jhas been on trial for four weeks for the murder of his wife last September, acquitted after the jury had been out forty-ejght hours. He is released on the grounds of insanity. The crime was one of the moci‘ bloody In the history of the city.