NEW JERSEY MURDERERS
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED t ON E A BOY OF SIXTEEN. ’ . Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright . .NEW’YORK, November ,21. Jacob Ciemiengo, aged 16, and his companion, George Hildebrand, 10 years older were convicted of first degree murder at the Burlington, New Jersey, County Court to-day 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 by the prosecution. The-pre-siding judge declared that the jury’s verdict was just. .
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Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 17
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