Iowa
Old Press
Mitchell County Press
Osage,Michell County, Iowa
Thursday, April 6, 1899
SENTENCED TO THE PEN.
Fairbanks, Andrew and Carpenter Received Their Sentences on
Wednesday Afternoon.
The Young Men who Broke into the Car Must Each serve a Year In
the Pen.*
There were only a few present in the courtroom Wednesday
afternoon about five o’clock when DeForest Fairbanks, Albert
Andrew and George Carpenter were brought in and given their
sentences by Judge Kelley. As he pronounced the life sentence at
hard labor in the prison at Anamosa on Fairbanks, and asked the
prisoner if he had any reason why judgment should not be
pronounced, Mr. Fairbanks replied that one reason was he had just
been informed that one of the jurors, John Runkle, had tormed and
expressed his opinion on the case. The court noted the exception
but pronounced the sentence.
[* Not related to the Fairbanks case. See also December 1898 for a report of the Fairbanks case. Transcribed by M.O., November 2007]