Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1908 — Pathetic Sequel To Lawson Murder Case. [ARTICLE]

Pathetic Sequel To Lawson Murder Case.

>» A pathetic sequel to the celeoratedLawson murdercase in Lafayette came Monday when Ethel Lawson, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Alice Lawson, who was sen tenced last year to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband, Charles A. Lawson, a saloon keeper at Lafayette, was arrested on the charge of incorrigibility. At the time of her mother’s sentence, an effort was made by women in that city to have Ethel sent away to school, but the mother objected, say:ng that the girl would be well cared for by her grandmother, Mrs. Anderson Vick', with whom she has been living ever since the trial. The girl has been attending the Baptist Sunday school and the Washington public school, and has been a good pupil at both plaees.

Saturday her grandmother filed an affidavit in the Juvenile court alleging incorrigibility. The probation officer investigated and reported that the charge was well founded, and be recommended that the child be committed to some institution. Monday the police went to the Washington school and arrested Ethel on the charge of being a runaway girl. The grandparents complained to the police that the girl left home Sunday and did not return home that night. Ethel was placed in charge of a temporary guardian, and her case will be tried in the Juvenile court.