Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — To Be a Private Function. [ARTICLE]

To Be a Private Function.

Warden Reid interviewed the state attorney-general in regard to who could be admitted to the hanging of Joseph Keith, Friday Nov. 15th. The attorney held that none but those required to assist in the execution, spiritual advisers and relatives the condemned man might desire, not to exoeed ten. The condemned man’s wife is working hard to induce Governor Durbin to commute his sentenoe to imprisonment for life.