Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Schwante Guilty of Murder. [ARTICLE]

Schwante Guilty of Murder.

Schwante’s murder case, which has been on trial at Manchester, Wis., for the last two weeks, came to a close. The Jury was out all night, and at 11 a. m. brought in a verdict of guilty In the first degree. The convicted man is a young farmer living near Spencer, and was charged with burning the home of an aged couple* named Klokow last November while they were asleep.