Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1898 — Messenger Gets a Life Sentence. [ARTICLE]

Messenger Gets a Life Sentence.

The trial of Wm. Messenger was finished Saturday, and late that afternoon the 'jury brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. A dispatch in the Chicago papers says an attempt to release him from jail was made by his friends but frustrated by the deputy sherilf.