Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — THE EASE OF ORTH STEIN. [ARTICLE]

THE EASE OF ORTH STEIN.

At Kansas City, Mo. last Thursday the jury returned a verdict, acquitting Orth Stein, formerly of Lafayette, who shot and killed George Fredericks, proprietor of a variety theater in that city, in June. 1882. The quarrel arose over Stein’s attention to Fredericks’s mi stress, a woman named Hartine, and ended in the shooting of Fredericks 0.1 the stairway as the two men were leaving her room, late at night. The woman was the only witness to the shooting, and testified against Stein. The The plea of the defendant was selfdefense. At a former trial he was found guilty and sentenced to twentyfive years, but obtained a new trial, resulting as above stated in acquittal.