New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-22
A WfRVING TO THIEPES.
CONVICTION OF MISS DYAS's AsSAU.AST-A RETRIEVED
BURGLAR PUNISHED.

CONVICTION OF MISS DYAS's AsSAUAST-A RETRIEVED
BURGLAR PUNISHED.
A hardened young thief was severely pun
shcd in the Court OF over aud Terminer yesterday by
Judge Brady, who improved the occasion to warn de
PRAYED young against the perncious effects Of the
Jack sheppard scnOO of literature and point out the
fate which oveTtakes ultimately the who chooses
CRIME and fraud for his profession When tne case oil
Dominck klioran was called for trial young man
with smooth face looking scarcely 20 years OF age was
brought from the of the roon his handouts were
removed ho took beside his counsel, WIN F.
Knitting. His face rather prepossessiug aud his
attire neat. tasteful IL is said that he Is re-
specially connected and the prospective heir to several
thousand dollars yet his history proves he prefers
the hazardous excements OF criminal life for which 1t
would almost he has mania, and has
more than been the clutches OF the
law. 4 1t viii be remembered that some time q con
spiracy to rob the messenger Of the Park Bank was
frustrated and the daring p0tter narrowly escaped
conviction. This was Doninick Koran whose real
name is HOratio Rayon and his trial he touched
the sympathes of the court by his youthful face and
figure and unassunlng department. That he aQuit
ted, and Judge Brady dismissed him with few words
of kindly though stern advice Not satisfied with tins
OK perence again fell into tho hands Of the police
only time afterwari and this time he sent
to Blackweis Island. After stay Of three months.
he escaped by swimming ashore and for the third
time. ho appears. charged with the meancst OF all
tLieyery. pocketpcknG, Or its equivalent pocketbook
snatching This last exploit was performed
ON Dec. 81 last. Miss Ada Dyas of the
Fifth Avenue Theater, who walking along
Fourth-ave., after leaving the Clarendon Hotel.
Her pocket book was left hand and was
appraised TO avoid the mud She suddenly felt the wallet
snatched away and AT the time the Young thief
walked uoncnsany in front Of her probably to dsarm
suspicious of him. She at once erred, stop Thief "
and he started into up FOurhave. Officer Seayer,
hearing the cry gave chase ana caught tine ei IN an
area-way around the corner. after running down
tcSnced Ha an and the Vail lie was
the satonn and Miss Dyss identified him
Instantly.
young man named Doolady, OF four or Ave sub
scquently arrested, examined, and he testified TO
dropped H. James Garland testified that the prisoner
came running toward him Ho attempted TO stop nm
hand trowsers pocket and said: IF you stop me- II
Domnick" himself took the stand in his own de-
Tense Told the usual incredible story He had been
Gin trouble" four times. and owed five months
the Pententiary Since his lie had striven" to
do the best he could. lLaughter On the day OF this
he promised to meet that evening at the Young Mems
Christian Association. Here the spectators INDUCED III
book but because the cry OF "Stop the" applied
II TOOK precisely three minutes for the jury to find
him guilty. and Judge Brady, III passing sentence char
acterized the crime the prisoner had committed las
only one remove from highway robbery" He regretted
that he could not inct still severer punishment than
tine statute allowed, he that the reformation OF
the prisoner was we'll nigh impossible lie then SOU
fenced five years In the state Prison NJ hard
labor.
George Lockwood, alias FULLY, convicted of breaking
into the store Thomas Bogue at No 4o3 Eightbve.
Nov 10, 1870, but whose sentence suspended,
broug into the Court OF General SeOns yesterday
receive sentence the police having recently found set
burglars tools in his apartments while they were
searching the several skful burglaies
which had been committed. Peter Mitchell. who ap
peared for Lockwood, asked that shown the
accused the Court, and said that lockwood had
formed and trying To lead honest life, and that
the glars tools found in Lockwood had been
pu zero ~ le
been OF the most expert burglars in NewYOrk but
he had reformed. Judge sutherland said that ne did
see any good reason Why he should make exception
LOckwOods and sentenced him to ~ years I'M
prsOnment In the State Prison.