Gardner v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. George W. Herdman, Judge, presiding. On the motion to withdraw the plea of guilty, the Hon. Lyman Lacey presided.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
On the 23d day of November, 1882, Theodore Gardner, a young man between nineteen and twenty years of age, of German nationality, was indicted by the grand jury of Mason county for the murder of Mary Welter, the killing having occurred on the 14th of the same month. At the time of the homicide young Gardner lived in the family of John B. Welter, the husband of the deceased, who was also the uncle of the accused. The prisoner had but a short time before come over from Germany to this country, and was unable to speak or understand the English language. On the 25th, the day following the…
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