Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-27
PENNSYLVANIA.

The Convicted Rribers Sentenced
 Scenes in the Court Room.
 HARRISBURG, April 26.-The announcement in the morning papers hero that the five con- victed bribers would not appear for sentence till p. m. had the effect of preventing any thing like 8 large gathering in the court room this morning. The greater part of the fore noon was taken up with various cases until nearly 12 o'clock, when Charles B. Salter, Emile Petroff and Jesse R. Crawford entered the court room accompanied by their counsel. Shortly after MT. Kembls appeared looking careworn and haggard. Accompanying him were his counsel, Judge Brewster and Colonel Mann. After little delay Rumberger entered visibly trembling and shaken, and evidently very much broken and altered in the past four months. Saltsr was the only defendant who affected pleasant mood, smiling as he passed the reporters table. District Attorney Hollin- ger called up the defendants for sentence. Judge Pearson required them to come for ward and stand in line in front of the clerks desk while he proceeded to read an address, which covered several pages of foolscap, dwelling upon the enormity of their crime, it's great prevalence in past Legislatures, etc. He said the law was no respeoter of persons. Even though criminals were miIlionaires, clothed in broadcloth, they should be dealt with the same as a beggar clothed in rags. Then he imposed sentence Of $l 900 and costs upon each criminal, and also of imprs- onment for one year in the Eastern penitenti- ary in Philadelphia in solitary confinement at hard labor. As the words ''hard labor came from the judges lips, Kemble quickly turned and looked anxiously at his counsel, but both Judge Brewster and Colonel Mann sat perfectly mute, looking if possible more Respondent than their client. Kemble then turned and addressed the court, protesting that he was in no manner guilty of the crime as charged in the indictment and that he had expressly so stated at the time his plea was entered. Colonel Rumberger made a few rambling remarks to the effect that his counsel, Colonel Armstrong, was absent and he thought sentence in his case should be de- ferred. He was evidently completely un- nerved and trembled and shook all the time he was speaking. The Judge treated him very kindly, listening patiently and announc ing that sentence had to be passed whether counsel were present or not. He added that he understood that all the defendants were gentlemen of high responsibility which made the duty painful to perform. He then gave the prisoners to the sherilf's custody, who took them to the jail from whence they will be taken this afternoon to Philadelphia to their place of confinement. Mrs. Kembe accompanied her husband here and is now at the LochieI Hotel in an almost insane con- dition. It is also reported that Colonel Rum berger's aged wife is lying prostrated with se- we're sickness at their home in Armstrong county. Judge Henderson informed re- porter of the National Associated Press that the remaining indictments will not be called mn for frinI bAfore Thursday and possihIv mt then, as the regular business of the court will have to be attended to first.