Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Rioters Are Put in Prison. [ARTICLE]

Rioters Are Put in Prison.

Leaders in the attempt to lynch Ed Jackson, the negro charged with the murder of Charles Rowe, last Wednesday night, at Galesburg, 111., are confronted with the fact that such measures will not be tolerated in Illinois. E. C. Grosse of Madisonville 0., has been found guilty and fined SIOO and sentenced to one year in the county jail by Judge P. S. Post William Rostinbader, Roscoe Muir and S. D. Aldrich have been arrested on a similar charge and bound over in the sum of SI,OOO to the grand Jury.