Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1893 — TRIED FIFTEEN TIMES. [ARTICLE]

TRIED FIFTEEN TIMES.

B. C. Faaamor* Finally Acquitted of th* Murder of Richard Paxton. The jury in the case of H. C. Passmore, it Harrodsburg, Ky., for the murder of Richard Paxton on October 5, 1887, returned a verdict, Monday, for acquittal after being out less than half an hour. This is the fifteenth court that has passed on the case. At the first trial the jury stood seven for capital punishment, four for life imprisonment and one for acquittal, and they have been growing more lenient in every court since. The case has cost the State more than 830,000, several jurymen, as well as witnesses, being taken from adjoining counties.