This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Monnett Dupler Hastings Thurston Sesler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2VB.2ACE/502.4 Message Board Post: Monnett Gets 5 to 10 Years in Penitentiary Not less than five nor more than ten years in the Ohio penitentiary at hard labor was the sentence meted out by Judge Brooks Shell to Emerson Monnett, Thurston section laborer, for felonius assault of Bessie Dupler, 12 year old school girl and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Dupler. Sentence was passed after Judge Shell overruled a motion for a new trial, filed today by the defense counsel, John Silbaugh, appointed by the court. Monnett will be taken to prison within the next few days by one of Sheriff Sesler's deputies. He was tried Thursday and after deliberating thirty minutes the jury returned a verdict of guilty. While intoxicated Monnett visit the little girls home early one morning last fall, opened the window and removed the child from a couch where she had been sleeping and carried her to the Thurston school house yard where he attempted to take improper liberties with her. However, the child, by struggling, kicking and scratching, according to the story told authorities, managed to free herself and escape. Clad only in her night clothing and under garments she made her way back to the home and told her parents it was Emerson Monnett who had taken her out of the house. Shortly afterwards the village marshall went to Monnett's home, arrested him, and brought him to the city prison here. Following arraignment before Mayor R. U. Hastings he was confined in the county jail in default of bond, until final dispostion of his case. Lancaster Daily Eagle, Lancaster, Ohio, Feb. 9, 1929