Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — Albert Powers Gets Six Years. [ARTICLE]

Albert Powers Gets Six Years.

Albert Powers has had his trial at Covington, Ky., and has been sentenced to the Kentucky penitentiary for six years. .The crime was shooting and very badly wounding Wm. Sandford, a CinI cinnati policeman, while assisting in Power’s arrest, as detailed in The Republican, about 5 or 6 weeks ago. • Powers is the man who stole George Ketcham’s horse and Ed Price’s buggy, from just east of town, last February; and it was while arresting him for this crime that be shot Sandford. Powers is a man considerably past middle age and has a family at Covington, who are reported to be very estimable people. Powers, himself, however is no doubt a [ regular “bad un,” and has a penitentiary sentence hanging over him at Columbus, Ohio.