Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1899 — Sentenced By Judge Thompson. [ARTICLE]

Sentenced By Judge Thompson.

It fell to Judge Thompson’s lot while holding court in Monticello this week to pass sentence on one Bert Wickam a cattle thief of considerable repute. He recently sto’e 16 head of young cattle of A. D. Raub and drove them to Otterbien and sold them to a man named Hawkins. The cattle were taken away from Hawkins by the owener and Hawkins then went to Monticello to look up Wickam. The latter saw Hawkins before Hawkins saw him and slid ont. He might have made good his escape, but ventured back to Monticello blacked up as a darkey, and was captured. He plead guilty and being still under thirty he was sent to the Jeffersonville reformatory on a two to fourteen years sentence. There are about 40 different claimants for the fSO reward offered for Wickam’s arrest.