Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1893 — A BACK NUMBER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A BACK NUMBER.

Stephen Horsey, the Son of Liberty, Cele* brates HU Seventieth Blrtbdny. •3 • •’ t—. i Stephen Horsey, the Son of Liberty who was sentenced to hang in 1864 for treason, and whose name was a household word during tjigt exciting period of the Nation’s history, is still living'in Indianapolis in good health and celebrated his seventieth anniversary on Thursday. > President Lin'

coin commuted Horsey’* sentence to-llf« imprisonment and he was sent to. the Columbus, Q., penitentiary, where he remained for several ipbntfas, j His case had, in the meantime, gone to the Supreme Court of the United,States, and eventually he was released because that- body decided that a military trlbrpal had ho right to try him. Horseyis a native Booster, and was born In Martin county. He moved to Indianapolis three year# ago, and 1* employed by the Parry road-cart works.

STEPHEN HORSEY.