Beck Given A Life Sentence

Menominee, Mich., Nov. 20. - Joseph Beck, the self-confessed murderer of ten-year-old Julia Wozniak on Sept. 28, pleaded guilty in the circuit court yesterday morning and was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor and solitary confinement in the branch state prison at Marquette by Judge Stone. The prisoner showed no emotion during the trial, which only took twenty minutes. The testimony of Chief of Police English, Drs. Hicks and Grignon was taken. When asked if he had anything to say, Beck replied: “No.” Judge Stone then pronounced him guilty of murder in the first degree.