Clinton County IA Archives News.....Delmar Bandits Sentenced To Life February 5, 1914
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Lost Nation Press February 5, 1914
Lost Nation Press, Feb. 5, 1914 

DELMAR BANDITS SENTENCED TO LIFE 

Slayers of William Wison To Spend Their Days At Fort Madison 

In District Court at Clinton last week, the final chapter was written in the 
case of the colored men involved in the hold-up at Delmar. Some weeks ago one 
life was summarily snuffed out and an officer of the law was seriously wounded 
in apprehending the bandits. Bud Robinson and John Cooper, confessed slayers 
of William Wilson, the Delmar saloonkeeper were sentenced to spend the 
remainder of their days behind the walls of the state penitentiary at Ft. 
Madison. Morris, the third member of the murderous trio, is a hopeless maniac 
in the reformatory at Anamosa, where he will in all likelihood end his earthly 
existence. When arraigned in court for sentence, Robinson and Cooper displayed 
little or no concern. Judge Barker informed the men that it was in his power 
to inflict the death penalty and asked each if he had anything to offer in 
extenuation of the confessed crime. Robinson preserved a stolid silence, but 
Cooper is a young fellow and not bad looking, stated the shooting was 
incidental to the robbery, that the fatal shot was fired by Morris, who is now 
insane, and was in no sense premeditated. Thereupon Judge Barker sentenced 
both the prisoners to the penitentiary for the period of their natural lives. 
Sheriff Daughtery delived them to the prison authorities last Monday. 




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