His Fate Is Sealed

MURDERER BRANTLINGER NOW IN JACKSON PRISON.

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND HARD LABOR FOR LIFE.

JUSTICE DEALT OUT QUICKLY-- NO ATTEMPT AT LYNCHING.

Hastings, Mich., Dec. 19.--Solitary confinement and hard labor at state's prison at Jackson for life was the sentence which sealed the fate of Murderer Utzer, alias Brantlinger, at 4:50 p. m. Thursday, and closed, in the remarkably short period of four days, one of the most horrible tragedies in the criminal history of Barry county.

Beginning with the early morning, Wednesday's excitement was renewed, and even intensified, by neighbors of the murdered woman, who waited in sullen silence as the wretch was arraigned before Judge Smith at 10 o'clock in the morning and registered his plea of guilty to the charge preferred against him.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a large number of deputies escorted the prisoner into the courtroom.

Judge Smith, on taking the bench, appealed to the people to refrain from all violence and to let the law take its course, promising that the wretch would have speedy justice. This appeal, which probably saved the prisoner's life, calmed the people, so when the prisoner was brought in a short time later there was little demonstration.

Throughout the entire proceedings the prisoner had remained entirely motionless. As he heard the fatal words he lurched forward and would have fallen had it not been for the assistance of officers.

For nearly an hour Brantlinger was again subjected to taunts by a continuous throng of visitors, and it was with alacrity that he prepared to make the trip to Jackson, assured as he was by the presence of a large number of deputies that no attempt at violence would be successful.

As it was, nearly 1,000 people assembled in violence at the Michigan Central depot to see the prisoner taken to his future home at Jackson and safely kept from an angry populace, who although restrained by many cool heads, nevertheless at any time needed only a leader to incite them to action.

Jackson, Mich., Dec. 19.- John Brantlinger, the Barry county murderer, was received at the prison immediately upon the arrival of the Michigan Central train from Hastings at 8:30 last evening. There was no demonstration, and only the officers of the prison and the sheriff of Barry county, and a deputy who accompanied him, were present.