Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — A LIGHT SENTENCE. [ARTICLE]

A LIGHT SENTENCE.

Jim Blake Let Off With a SSO Fine and Six Months Jail Sentence. Jim Blake, the young man who recently made a murderous assault upon old Henry Tinder at Gifford and came near killing him, was let off with a light sentence by a jury in the circuit court last week. The defens4 tried to show that the b >y was mentally irresponsible and how well they succeeded in doing so is shown by a jail sentence of six months and a SSO fine. Blake was released from the reform school at Plainfield some time ago on parole, and Monday, 011 request of the officials of that institution he was re turned.