Six yYears for Manslaughter

WOOD, MITCHELL, MIZE, WAKEFIELD, CHEVALIER

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 12/4/2010 at 22:16:58

Maquoketa Record, December 13, 1899

Six Years for Manslaughter

At Logan, Judge Wakefield sentenced Arch Wood to the penitentiary for six years and fined him $1 on the charge of manslaughter. Wood is a young man who lives near Dunlap, and in company with John Mitchell and Evan Mize, on the evening of April 11 last, assaulted and brutally hammered and kicked to a state of insensibility and old gentleman by the name of Chevalier, who afterwards died from the effects of the injuries.