Future looks dark for Alfred Meacham

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Muncie Morning Star

Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 27, no. 181, p. 8, col. 2

FUTURE LOOKS DARK

FOR ALFRED MEACHAM

Unless New Trial Is Granted He Will

Probably End Hs Days at Hard

Labor.

Attorneys for Alfred Meacham, the former Muncie and Hartford City glass worker, who was convicted of the murder of Fred Cummings, at Chattanooga, Tenn., last week, have filed written motions for a new trial. Meacham was sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment tor murder in in the second degree.

A sentence of fifteen years on a man Meacham's age practically means for life. A particularly dark future looms up before Meacham for a Tennessee second degree murderer serves his sentence in the coal mines. The average life of a convict at mine labor is eight years, and Meacham, who is in the neighbor­hood of 40 years of age and has been a drinking man, is not expected by his friends to outlive the average.

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Researcher:Roger Lucas / Bob Stahr
Date completed:September 7, 2023 by: Bob Stahr;