Whitbeck Murder Conviction Appealed

WHITBECK

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 4/25/2010 at 08:09:24

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, August 12, 1909

WHITBECK MURDER CONVICTION APPEALED
Son Who Murdered His Father Is Serving Life Sentence

West Union, Iowa
August 9, 1909-
An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court in the Whitbeck murder case. In this case, Walter Whitbeck, a young man of Auburn Township, was convicted last September of murder in the first degree for beating his father to death on March 18, 1908. He was sent up for life. The brief of the appellant’s attorneys, Clements & Estey, was placed in the printer’s hands.