Show WALLACE SERVED PEN Negro Hanged at La Junta Served a Sentence for Criminal Assault Scdalla Mo March 26W H Wallace the negro who was lynched at La Junta Colo last nlpht for assaulting MIss Boiler an ased white woman was sent to thQ pcntilentlary fort o years for a similar crime committed here nearly four years ajro Wallace was employed nn Janitor at tho Missouri Kansas Texas passenger station Almost weekly for three or four months there were assaults on whlto girls returning home from work at night Bloodhounds were finally secured se-cured and Wallace was run don The evidence against him was only circumstantial circum-stantial but ho consented to plead guilty If given u minimum sentence Ho was discharged undtr tho threefourths rule alter serving eighteen mouthy and was next heard of in Denver |