People v. Wilcox

Walter L. Wilcox, the defendant, on the 11th day of August, 1925, kept a roadhouse on the Bloomingdale road in the town of Wallkill. He had a bar and a barkeeper, named Richard Bender, and sold beer and soft drinks. His housekeeper was a married woman named Eva Oliver, who was not living with her husband. In the early morning of the day mentioned, one Walter Hadden, a resident of Middletown, was shot with a shotgun while on the grounds at the side of the house, and this defendant has been convicted of murder in the second degree for causing his death, and sentenced to State’s prison for a…