MIDDLETON IS GIVEN FREEDOM

MIDDLETON, TIPTON, WOODS, SATTERTHWAITE, HARDING

Posted By: Judy Kelley, volunteer (email)
Date: 10/22/2010 at 17:39:52

District Court Clerk R.G. Tipton today received from Secretary Sam D. Wood of the state board of parole, a certificate of the discharge of Edward Middleton, from the state penitentiary at Fort Madison.

Middleton, with Robert Satterthwaite, was convicted in the district court here in December, 1912, on a charge of breaking and entering, both being imprisioned. The former was paroled March 22, 1916, and was dicharged by Governor W.L. Harding Saturday of the past week, the certificate states. Satterthwaite was discharged at an earlier date.

Source: LCHS scrapbook; newspaper clipping with handwritten date of May 29, 1917