BOY OF 16 TO DIE
UNIQUE CASE IN TJ.S.A.
MURDER OF AGED.FARMER
NEW YORK, November 21. Jacob Ciemiengo, sixteen years of age, and a companion, George Hildebrand, ten years older, were convicted of first degree, murder at the Burlington, New Jersey, county court today,' and sentenced to die in the electric chair. • .. Ciemiengo is the youngest person ever convicted on such a charge or put to death legally in America, according to the criminal records. The youths shot and killed an aged farmer whom they intended to rob, according to the charge of the prosecution. ■
Judge Hendrickson, who presided, declared the jury's verdict a just one.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 11
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106BOY OF 16 TO DIE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 11
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