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Show ALEX JENNINGS OH . . TRIAL FOR ARSON The case of the - State against Alex Jennings, charged with arson, was commenced before Jud Armstrong and a Jury Thursday.' ' Jennings is charged in the complaint with having destroyed the Highland Boy boarding-house by fire on the nignt or septemDer ii. iws, wun ine 'assistance of John Holllman and Frank Wilson. Jennings and the two men were also accused of .having burned the. Lehl creamery about the same' time, for which they were tried in the Fourth District court. At the trial Jennings was acquitted, but Holllman and Wilson were convicted and sentenced sen-tenced to five years each In the State prison. They were brought down from the pen Thursday to testify In the present case.' BSBBSBSBSBSaaBBBiSBBtBBBaaBBSBBBBBBBBSSBBBBBBBBBBSBBBBBSBi f |