Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1891 — Daywitt Gets Two and a Half Years. [ARTICLE]

Daywitt Gets Two and a Half Years.

| JThe result of Walter Day wittts’ rial at Kentland. Tuesday for his attemptei criminal assult upon £n 82 year” old woman, was a verdict of years in. the penitentiary and $5 fine. It was an aggravated case and practically no defense was offered. The ought to have been twice as heavy, but the jurors thought Daywitt ’’did not look smart” and having therefore a fellow feeling for him, they let Mm off easy.