Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — Minister Sent to Prison. [ARTICLE]

Minister Sent to Prison.

Judge Swan of the United States district court at Detroit sentenced Rev. G. F. B. Howard, who had previously pleaded guilty to using the mails to obtain money under false pretenses at Horton, Mich., to two and a half years in the Detroit house of correction. Howard, who is well known throughout the country, was arrested by a United States marshal in Columbus, 0., several months ago as he left the Ohio penitentiary after serving a nine-year sentence, and taken to Detroit. He made an eloquent and pathetic plea for mercy.