Lancaster County Commissioners reported On This Day in 1882 that they received a check from Eastern Penitentiary. The check was for $19.89 and was the amount that inmate Lewis Sowers made while in prison, over what it costs to incarcerate him. Sowers, who is from Lancaster County , was in prison for killing his wife the year before. Source: Lancaster daily intelligencer . ( Lancaster , Pa. ), 10 March 1882. Chronicling America : Historic American Newspapers . Lib. of Congress. On This Day is a prompt I started to further explore historical events. © Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2015
by Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman