Will County IL Archives News.....A Wife Murderer Convicted [Jacobs] October 26, 1875 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com August 23, 2007, 7:24 pm Utica [NY] Daily Observer October 26, 1875 Joliet, Ill., Oct. 26. - Jacobs, the farmer of Homer, who has been on trial here for wife murder last spring, was found guilty by the Jury to-day, who fixed the penalty as death by hanging. The evidence was only circumstantial, but very strong. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/newspapers/awifemur212nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 0.9 Kb