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FF TO PENITENTIARYM ISOM TO SERVE SIX MONTHS.lored Man Gets Off Easy For A Grave Crime—Pleads Guilty Only to Adultery.Sheriff J. H. Humphrey returned esday from Ft. Madison where he 3 taken Dan Isom, colored, to start m serving his sentence of six nths.in the penitentiary upon a plea guilty to a charge of adultry, the respondent being a white woman of jound mind, Mrs. Van Cleave, who now confined in the asylum at Clar-a.Fhe details of this case need not be earsed at this time, as the facts still fresh in the minds of all our ders. It will be remembreed that victim was a white woman ofguilty 7 and at the pri agreement he plead gu ser crime of adultery more henious crime 1 This was agreed to by torney and the sentence in the penitentiary wasConsiderable talk ha by such a light punishn census of opinion seer Dan Isom should either iehed at all, if he did n crime, or if guilty of o: terrible crimes in tl should have received a mesurate with it. The be incontrovertable. Tl wts of unsound mind is fact that she ahs since asylum. There is no fact that the child was was a colored child. Tl puting the fact that Dai her house at all hours o nifrht and that he fled
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Bedford Free Press
Bedford, Iowa, US
Thu, May 09, 1907
Page 5
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Taylor C.
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