Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — FOUND GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

FOUND GUILTY.

Jury Returns Verdict Against Detectives on Trial for Murder. Chicago, March v.—ln the case of the murder of Frank White in mistake for his criminal brother, Clarence. White, by operatives of the Berry detective agency, who went out after Clarence with revolvers and a warrant, the jury returned a verdict of guilty as to aIL the six defendants, the McDonald brothers, one of them superintendent of the agency, having been acquitted several days ago. William J. Dix, who fired the fatal styols, was convicted of murder and 1 his' punishment fixed at life imprisonment. The other five, Jacob Fischel, Charles A. Thompson, William F. Mayo, John Frow and Charles J. Poole, were convicted of manslaughter and their punishment left to the judge.