The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-05-24

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as she was a mother, counselor and
a friend to them all.
The SENTENCES AND SENTENCED
Last week Thursday afternoon at three
o'clock was the time appointed for the
closing sitting of the District Court.
And since the measure of punishment,
as determined and solemnly announced
from the judicial Bench, is always a
matter of considerable public interest,
the Court room was we'll filled when
his Honor, Judge Shane, read the title
of the case Of State vs. Goodenough-
the latter having plead guilty to sun
dry larcenies for which he had been
indicted. On behalf of the prisoner,
Mr.. Landt plead youth, orphanage and
poverty; and the Judge, after questions
which were promptly answered and
showed that the boy did not know his
own age but was probably about six
teen, ordered him to be taken to the
sNldtS NCiolH
which seemed to meet general approx
al.
w. r. Macy was the next delinquent.
He had been indicted in connection
with the abstraction Of a pocket-book,
as noted in these columns last January,
and had plead guilty to petit larceny.
Having already been in Jail over four
months. the Court passed sentence
of ten days in the county Jail and to
pay costs of prosecution.
The case of Thos. Welch, who had
plead guilty to violation of the liquor
law, being next called-the Judge re-
marked that three-fourths ofthe GRIM
inal litigation of the country belonged
to this class Of cases; but whatever
might be thought of the wisdom of
prohibitory legislation, these laws were
now on the statute book and his only
duty lay in the enforcement of them.
That those who were continually
breaking these laws did so solely to
make money, and if they failed to
make anything out of it they would
probably refrain. He farther said that
the offender in this case was an old
one, whom ii had been difficult to
bring to justice, and who would now
be required to pay fine of $50 and
costs, or be committed to Jail for forty
five DAYS.
w. II. Bruhn, Claus Petersen and
Henry Guth, each Of whom plead
guilty to same offence as Welch, and
each of whom. we believe, signified
that he had sold out and was going to
quit the business, received II uniform
sentence Of 500 and costs.
w. II. Carson having plead guilty
to keeping gambling house, it was
represented on his behalf that the
crime was only technical one-he
keeping reputable bakery and
confectionery, and having been
brought under the law by boys who
came in and shook dice for treats
without his sanction. This showing be-
ing backed by petition signed by
prominent citizens of Clarence, the
Judge recorded the nominal sentence
of s. fine and costs.
While these minor offenders were
being dealt with, however, the chief
attention of spectators had been at
tracted toward Mr.. George Hawkins,
the man whom jury had the day
previous, with only a few minutes de-
liberation, found guilty of burglary
with intent to commit rape. Haw-
kins sat nervously in the box, accom-
panied by his wife, her sister, and a
beautiful child of some three or four
years. When his name was called,
Mr.. A. II. Starrett, of his counsel
made and strenuously urged a motion
for new trial. The Judge having
overruled the motion and noted de-
fendant's exception, Mr.. Landt, asso-
ciate counsel for defence, made a.
strong appeal for the mercy Of the
Court-citing every favorable circum-
stance and effectively presenting for
consideration the hard lot of the inno-
cent wife and child. To this District
Attorney Smith responded, saying
that without any malice toward the
prisoner and with deep sympathy for
his family, he felt 1t his duty as pub
lie officer to call the attention of the
Court to the fact that two different
Grand Juries had indicted, and two
different petit juries-one of them in
another county-had convicted Haw-
kins for substantially the same crime.
He also referred to the character of the
alleged offence and the fact that the
punishment might have been made
imprisonment for life, and asked vim
dication of the law by good round
sentence" Judge Shane then adj
dressed the prisoner at some length,
telling him that he had been granted
every favor consistent with justice
had had two, trials against the perfect
fairness of which nothing could be
said. and now for the second time
been found, by an unprejudiced jury,
guilty Of one of the gravest of crimes.
Then recapitulating the leading fea-
lures Of the deed whereby the dwell
ing Of a lone woman, old enough to be
defendants mother, was broken open
in the middle Of the night and herself
treated with brutal violence, and the
very grossest indignity, the Judge
said that If there were any extenuat-
ing circumstances whatever, he failed
to see them. The wife and child, to
whom reference had been made,
should have been an effectual barrier
to the commission Of crime, and 20,
pecjAlly Of such crime: aud although