Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1898 — Quick Disposition of a Murderer. [ARTICLE]

Quick Disposition of a Murderer.

Madison, Wis., July 9. —Fred Rodman, the Westfield wife murderer, was brought here to escape the vengeance of a mob, and was taken immediately before Judge Siebecker, in whose circuit the crime was committed. After waiving all formalities Rotiman pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, July 7, the date of the crime, in each year to be spent in solitary confinement. He was in prison within 34 hours of the commission of tbs crime.