-GETS LIFE FOR LISBON MURDER -
Harry Achey, the 47-year-old Mechanicsvllle man who shot and killed his wife's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hoover, memorial Id: 119835169 and memorial I'd: 119835199 at Lisbon, on the night of June 22, was sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts by Judge Chas. J. Haas in the district court Monday, after a hearing in which more than a dozen witnesses were examined. He had plead guilty to the charge, but the judge wanted a trial to establish the degree of the man's guilt. After the hearing the court held that it was first degree murder. The defense attorney offered the evidence that a quarrel had taken place, but the judge held that Achey went to the home armed with a gun, when it was not his habit to carry a gun, and that even if Mr. Hoover had attacked him, there was no reason for his killing Mrs. Hoover. The judge, in passing sentence, told the prisoner: "You would have no complaint were the state to demand your own death. You, yourself, passed sentence on two people, but you have appealed to the state or mercy, and the law is not without its margin of mercy." So Achey was sent to the Ft. Madison penitentiary for life, and the sheriff's office had him on the way in an hour in accordance with the prisoner's request. Achey was completely overcome during the sentencing, realizing what a mess he had made of things. (Marion Sentinel August 31, 1939) He was sentenced to Iowa State Penitentiary on 28 Aug 1939, his wife filed for divorce on 14 Aug 1939. He escaped on 12 Aug 1946, and was not caught , according to Iowa State Penitentiary and my conversation this afternoon with Records at the Penitentiary, he did not die there and probably assumed an alias .
Harry Achey, the 47-year-old Mechanicsvllle man who shot and killed his wife's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hoover, memorial Id: 119835169 and memorial I'd: 119835199 at Lisbon, on the night of June 22, was sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts by Judge Chas. J. Haas in the district court Monday, after a hearing in which more than a dozen witnesses were examined. He had plead guilty to the charge, but the judge wanted a trial to establish the degree of the man's guilt. After the hearing the court held that it was first degree murder. The defense attorney offered the evidence that a quarrel had taken place, but the judge held that Achey went to the home armed with a gun, when it was not his habit to carry a gun, and that even if Mr. Hoover had attacked him, there was no reason for his killing Mrs. Hoover. The judge, in passing sentence, told the prisoner: "You would have no complaint were the state to demand your own death. You, yourself, passed sentence on two people, but you have appealed to the state or mercy, and the law is not without its margin of mercy." So Achey was sent to the Ft. Madison penitentiary for life, and the sheriff's office had him on the way in an hour in accordance with the prisoner's request. Achey was completely overcome during the sentencing, realizing what a mess he had made of things. (Marion Sentinel August 31, 1939) He was sentenced to Iowa State Penitentiary on 28 Aug 1939, his wife filed for divorce on 14 Aug 1939. He escaped on 12 Aug 1946, and was not caught , according to Iowa State Penitentiary and my conversation this afternoon with Records at the Penitentiary, he did not die there and probably assumed an alias .
-GETS LIFE FOR LISBON MURDER -
Harry Achey, the 47-year-old Mechanicsvllle man who shot and killed his wife's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hoover, memorial Id: 119835169 and memorial I'd: 119835199 at Lisbon, on the night of June 22, was sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts by Judge Chas. J. Haas in the district court Monday, after a hearing in which more than a dozen witnesses were examined. He had plead guilty to the charge, but the judge wanted a trial to establish the degree of the man's guilt. After the hearing the court held that it was first degree murder. The defense attorney offered the evidence that a quarrel had taken place, but the judge held that Achey went to the home armed with a gun, when it was not his habit to carry a gun, and that even if Mr. Hoover had attacked him, there was no reason for his killing Mrs. Hoover. The judge, in passing sentence, told the prisoner: "You would have no complaint were the state to demand your own death. You, yourself, passed sentence on two people, but you have appealed to the state or mercy, and the law is not without its margin of mercy." So Achey was sent to the Ft. Madison penitentiary for life, and the sheriff's office had him on the way in an hour in accordance with the prisoner's request. Achey was completely overcome during the sentencing, realizing what a mess he had made of things. (Marion Sentinel August 31, 1939) He was sentenced to Iowa State Penitentiary on 28 Aug 1939, his wife filed for divorce on 14 Aug 1939. He escaped on 12 Aug 1946, and was not caught , according to Iowa State Penitentiary and my conversation this afternoon with Records at the Penitentiary, he did not die there and probably assumed an alias .
Harry Achey, the 47-year-old Mechanicsvllle man who shot and killed his wife's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hoover, memorial Id: 119835169 and memorial I'd: 119835199 at Lisbon, on the night of June 22, was sentenced to life imprisonment on two counts by Judge Chas. J. Haas in the district court Monday, after a hearing in which more than a dozen witnesses were examined. He had plead guilty to the charge, but the judge wanted a trial to establish the degree of the man's guilt. After the hearing the court held that it was first degree murder. The defense attorney offered the evidence that a quarrel had taken place, but the judge held that Achey went to the home armed with a gun, when it was not his habit to carry a gun, and that even if Mr. Hoover had attacked him, there was no reason for his killing Mrs. Hoover. The judge, in passing sentence, told the prisoner: "You would have no complaint were the state to demand your own death. You, yourself, passed sentence on two people, but you have appealed to the state or mercy, and the law is not without its margin of mercy." So Achey was sent to the Ft. Madison penitentiary for life, and the sheriff's office had him on the way in an hour in accordance with the prisoner's request. Achey was completely overcome during the sentencing, realizing what a mess he had made of things. (Marion Sentinel August 31, 1939) He was sentenced to Iowa State Penitentiary on 28 Aug 1939, his wife filed for divorce on 14 Aug 1939. He escaped on 12 Aug 1946, and was not caught , according to Iowa State Penitentiary and my conversation this afternoon with Records at the Penitentiary, he did not die there and probably assumed an alias .
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