Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1859 — Revolting Barbarity [ARTICLE]

Revolting Barbarity

A man named Roan has been convicted in Clay county, 111., of murder in the second, degree by causing the death of a blind b< y by neglect and starvation, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The facts disclosed were revolting in the extreme. The poor boy was put man outhouse and made to starve and freeze to death, covered with rags and vermin! Roan is wealthy, and paid his counsel a thousand dollars. He took a change of venue from Jasper county, where fie was indicted last spring. A portion of the jury were for the death penalty, and nearly all’ tiie people were. A motion was made for a new trial, which is under advisement.