The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-13
Angel Sentenced to the Penitentiary,

CHARLES w. ANGEL, indicted for
the larceny and embezzlement of some
$120, 900 in bonds and cash from the
Pullman Palace-Car Company, APP
peared before the Criminal Court in
Chicago, on the 9th ult., and entered
plea of guilty. Before sentence was
passed, Mr.. A. S. Weinsheimer, An
CELLS successor to the Secretaryship of
the company, was sworn, and testified
to the prisoners taking the bonds and
money. The bonds, he said, were in
New York, and the cash in the compa-
ny's safe in Chicago, the combination
to which Angel, the prisoner, had in
his possession. Of the bonds, $50, 900
had been recovered, and of the cash,
$4,000. The Court then asked Mr.. An
CELL if he desired to make any state
ment. He replied, "Not any," Judge
Williams then turned to the prisoner,
who stood with folded arms, and adj
dressed him as follows:
"In this case, sir, you have not only taken
property which was not your. own, and there
by committed criminal act, but YOU have
committed breach of trust of such character
as to shake the confidence of the community
very largely in parties who are intrusted with
large amounts of money. It is Just such acts
as this that astonish and shock community
and corrupt it. We expect that men who
have been entirely deficient all their lives of
any moral influence, who have had nothing to
keep them from evil, and have always been
subject to the most disastrous and wicked
surroundings-that these men should some
times commit crime. We expect to have pet
ty thefts. We look upon those as a matter of
course: Some of these are perhaps almost
m in
which the parties have been in times past, or
the condition in which they were at the time
the theft was committed. But this act of
yours is an act that cannot be palliated,
SO far as I know, in any way. You had
unlimited confidence bestowed upon you, and
in violation of that confidence, and in
abuse of it, you converted the money
of your emplOyers-not in any little
way, through a pressing necessity which
might have been brought to bear upon you,
but you did it in wholesale way, and when
there was no necessity at all for any such &C.
ton on your part. I could not sit here as q
Judge, and hold up my head, and punish the
small offenders who come before me from day
to day. and omit to punish the larger offend
ers. You have been a man of standing in this
community. You are very intelligent. The
surroundings which you have had in time past
should have kept you from crime of this sort.
1t has been noised abroad through the whole
country, and l must punish you, not ade-
quately, because the law does not permit me
to do it, but must punish you to the extent
of the law. Ionly regret in this case that the
law does not permit me to punish you more
severely-not because I have the least un-
kindness toward you, but because consider
the crime of such an aggravating character
that, if l could inflict a more severe punish.
ment, should feel that justice TO the com
munity demanded it.
The sentence of the Court will be that
you be confined in the Penitentiary for the
term of ten years. That is the full extent oil
The time for which I can sentence YOU"
Angel listened to the severe Ian.
guage of the Judge as if he thought he
was only a part Of a machine and the
Judge another, each one in its prov
ince performing its particular duty,
and as the Court ceased speaking he
turned himself toward the passage
leading to the Penitentiary with bare
ly perceptible smile on his mustached
lip. In a moment he passed out o.
sight.