75 Years Ago

Herald of June 6, 1944

Joseph Schworm, the Ohio farmer who last Feb. 19, murdered his daughter-in-law, the former Betty Ake of Martinsburg, was sent to the state penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, when he appeared in court for sentence Thursday of last week.

Schworm who is 82 years old was given an indefinite term in the penitentiary from one to 20 years. Whether the aged man, should he live, will be required to serve more than one year in prison, depends largely upon the court.

The circumstances of this murder which was one of the most ghastly in the annals of crime in Ohio are fairly familia...