Another Show For Liberty
June 18, 1889New trials granted two murderers under life and death sentences.
Ottawa, Ill., june 17- Opinions have been rendered in the Supreme court in two cases of special interest. The case of Bolzer, the Hungarian, who in 1877 killed a man named Haw at Streator, was reversed and remanded to the lower court. Bolzer had two trials. In first he was found guilty of murder in the first degree. In the second trial he was found guilty of manslaughter, and was sentenced to spend the remainder of his days in the penitentiary at Joilet. He began his imprisonment in March 1888. The decision gives him a new trial.
The other was the case of James H. Farris of Peoria, who was tried and convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged. He was granted a new trial. One of the points on which the case was remanded by the court above was the introduction of improper evidence. Ferris was to have been hanged in March last.
source: Davenport Morning Tribune
location: Davenport, Iowa
