Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1903 — An Inadequate Punishment. [ARTICLE]

An Inadequate Punishment.

Crown Point Star: John Daugherty, who got drunk and ruined $2,000 worth of monuments in the Lowell cemetery last week, through pure cussedness, was tried on Wednesday afternoon and given the full limit of the law —$50 fine and six months in the county jai), which will cause the taxpayers to board and clothe for nine months in exchange for his destruction of property and insulting the dead. The law should be changed to read state’s prison, or a dose of Paris green