Ohio Repository, May 8, 1910, p. 41. In 1900, Jacob Fawcett, age 32, was
enumerated in the household of his parents, Charles and Susan Fawcett, in
New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. He was a widow and worked as a cashier
in a bank.
BOY BANDIT SENT TO PEN FOR LIFE
Corydon, Indiana, May 7-[A. P.]-Thomas Jefferson Hoal, the boy bandit, was
found guilty of murder today and sentenced to life imprisonment. The plea
of his lawyers was "mental defectiveness."
Hoal is a 17-year-old Louisville boy who last November, single-handed,
attacked the Merchants National Bank of New Albany, Indiana, with the motive
of robbery. He compelled a negro chauffeur to drive him to the bank at noon
through crowded streets of Louisville and New Albany. In the bank he shot
and killed Cashier J. Hangary Fawcett and wounded President J. W. Woodward
and also the negro chauffeur. Without getting any money, he dashed from the
bank and attempted to cross the Ohio River to Louisville in a skiff, being
captured in midstream by the police.