Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1907 — Hickey Goes to Prison. [ARTICLE]

Hickey Goes to Prison.

The cutting scrape in Lake Village last spring in which John Hickey played the leading part, slashing Galvin Cain across the chin, ended rather disastrously to Hickey. The case was tried by a jury Friday, and Judge Darroch made a rather eloquent plea for his client, and suggested to the jury that a nominal fine, in view of the facts, would doubtless satisfy the ends of justice. The jury went out and balloted with seven at one time tor a fine, but some of the members thought this entirely inadequate and a prison sentence was finally agreed upon. By the decree of jury Hickey goes to Jeffersonville from two to fourteen years. Opinions vary in this community regarding the sentence, some thinking it is jnst right and some that it is severe. Prosecutor Graves is prosecuting cases of this character with great vigor, and it is possible that had Hickey been at his home or remained at Conrad and finished up his spree there instead of going over to the Village, that he would now be a free man. Sheriff Stoner took Hickey to Jeffersonville Saturday to enter on his term of imprisonment. —Kentlaud Enterprise.