Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — ANOTHER VILLAIN [PUNISHED. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER VILLAIN [PUNISHED.

Harper the Fidelity Bank Wrecker Sent up for Ten Tears—Tearful Conrt Scenes The j ury in the case of E. L. Harper, of Fidelity Bank wrecking fame, found the defendant guilty Monday, and the speculator was sentenced to ten years in the Ohio penitentiary. The Judge directed Harper t@ stand up. It was a most distressing scene. The strong man stood erect, with tears coursing down his ch ek3 r but no other sign, of emotion, save his blanched face. Behind his chair,with bowed head,sat his wife in’an agony that had no better manifestation than the wringing of her hands. T.-ars did not come to her relief. So they sat, while the Court with impressive solemnity recited the usual form of sentence, saying the evidence left no doubt of the defendant’s guilt, and that the offense meri ed the highest penalty of the law, which the Court would now impose—ten years in the Ohio penitentiary, and that the marshal convey him thither at once. _ ... „. . Still no outcry. Mr. Harper sat down, turning to his wife. Their lips met, her hands were around his neck, his arms encircled her. The silence in the court room w-as -awful. Jurors wept; women and men all over the court room were in tears. The silence was broken by Mr. Blackburn making a last request from the court. That was that the order of immediate imprisonment be suspended, and gave as a reason that there was much business to be attended to by Harper in which his wife was closely concerned, and that it would be exceedingly difficult to attend to it nnless Mr. Harper could remain for a few days. But the court was relentless. Judge Sage said there would be art’opportunity for his wife to see him in Columbus, and he repented the order to the marshal to convey him thither. An attempt was made, Saturday, to assassinate M. Jules Ferry bj a dissolute fellow named Auhertin. Two balls took effect on Ferry’s person, neither of which were serious. Auberin claims to belong to an organization pledged to take the lives of many of the prominent men of France. His mind is probably unbalanced.^ Mr. Sexton’s election as Lord Mayor of Dublin has been set aside by the Court ol Qneen’s Bench because he has violated the crimes act, and in his capacity as high sheriff neglectedA>r refused to perform all the functions to his office. .