Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — PLEADS GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

PLEADS GUILTY.

A. C. Baker Sentenced to Penitentiary for From One to Seven Years. A. O. Baker, the insurance man, )n the circuit court yesterday, plead guilty to the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses and was given a sentence of from one to seven years. But for his plea of guilty to this charge he was almost certain to have been convicted on the oharge of forgery, which would have meant from three to fourteen years in the penitentiary.