Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1904 — A Short Trip to State Prison. [ARTICLE]

A Short Trip to State Prison.

To beat a man into unconsciousness, rob him, spend the plunder, be captured get a penitentiary sentence and be taken to prison within thirty-six hours, is the record of John Meyers, of LaFayette and James Rader, of Wolcott. Ind. They were taken to the Michigan City prison Friday by Sheriff Ray, of Lafayette, when? they will serve a sentence of from two to fourteen years.