Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — Will get a Hotter Corner than Wartner. [ARTICLE]

Will get a Hotter Corner than Wartner.

Ktfningtoii News. The fate of Wartner the man recently found guilty of the murder of Dreger, his friend and neighbor, will likely be death by strangulation. While acknowledging the justice of such a sentence one can not help bnt feel a thrill of pity for the unfortunate wretch. Those grim spectres, hunger, cold and nakedness hovered round his desolate fireside and drove him blindly on to his dreadful destiny. Having neither the mind nor the energy needed for the hand to hand struggle for life hefyielded readily to the temptation which fell in his way and will likely pay the forfeit with his worthless life. We fully believe, however, that the Judge of all men will deal more leniently with him than with the wretch mentioned in last week’s Rensselaer Republican as having taken his infant child out into the cold and maltreated it in such a way as to cripple it for life. We blush with shame when we think that this drunken brute is a free riUttts of this oouoty.