Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-26
THE DISTRICT COURT.

In the district court yesterday sentence
was passed upon four criminals, who will
be taken to Saltwater to-day. The first
upon whom sentence was pronounced
by Judgs Lochren, yesterday, was Walter
B. Mulvsy, who was indicted by the grand
jury upon charge of Eembezzllng $1,000
from G. Aultman & Co. about one year
ago in this city. In September of last
year Mulvey was sent by his employers
upon a collecting tour through the
Northwest, and, after collecting some $500
from firm at Elizabethtown, he disap-
peared at Fergus Falls, and was not heard
of until last July, when he was arrested in
St. Louis in com pany with woman who
passed as his wife. He was brought to
this city, where he had q legal wife, who
ia the tenderness of her womanly nature
forgave her recreant husband, and has
proved true and noble wife to him since
his incarceration despite his infidelity.
Acting upon the advice of his attorney
Mulvey entered plea of guilty, when ar
raigned yesterday, and threw himself upon
the mercy Of the court.
His counsel, Hon. j. B. Gilfllan,
made a strong plea for leniency, and
among other things said that the two men
at Elizabethtown from whom Melvey col
lected money accompanied him to Fergus
Falls and got him intoxicated; that next
morning upon awaking from his drunken
stupor he found his money gone, and being
stuDg with remorse and fearing punish
ment.hs fed the state, and whatever wrong
he may have since committed resulted
from that one false step.
The learned counsel, if inclined to be
poeticsl, could have quoted the following
pertinent lines:
He that once sins, like him that slides on ice,
Goes swiftly down the slippery ways OF vice;
Though conscience checks him, yet these rubs
got DER,
He glides on swiftly and looks back no more.
Again, while the amount taken in notes,
drafts and money exceeded $4,000 all
had been refunded save few hundred dol
lars, so that the loss to Aultnan & Go. had
been omparatively light.
The duty which devolved upon Judge
Lochren in passing sentence was an ex-
ceedingly unpleasant one and he was vlsl-
bly, affected. The prisoner was the son of
an old comrade that served with Judge
Lochren in the army, but justice is inexor-
able and punishment must be inflicted for
wrong doing. In G voice trembling with
deep emotion the Judge sentenced the
young man to two years hard labor in the
state prison.
Senator GilflIan will try to secure the
pardon of his client from the governor.
The next upon whom sentence was
passed were brace of burglars named
Evans aud Lennon, who were indicted for
attempting to burglarize dwelling on the
East side, but were caught by an officer
before they committed the deed. They
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to eight
months in the penitsntiarye
The fourth man upon whom sentence
was passed was George Mitchell, who was
indicted in March, 1882, for forging j. G.
Oswald's name to bogus check drawn on
the City bank, and who then absconded.
He returned to the city after years ab-
sence and was arrested by Sheriff Stod
dard, whose eagle eye fell upon him. He
received sentence of two years at Still
water.
Michael Clarity, who was arrested and
placed in the county jail on the 18th of
last June, on the charge Of robbing W. j.
Buckley, of Cleveland, at the Quady hotel,
Second avenue south, of $427, while his
victim was asleep in bed up starirs, was
not indicted by the grand jury for good
and sufficient reason, which the GLOBE
now gives for the first time. Clarity had
been arrested in Chicago, with comanion
named Leahy for a train
robbery Of $500 and gave bail
in the sum of $1,000 to make
his appearance at the fall term of the
Cook county district court, Illinois. He
skipped nortbward, and left his bondsman
to pay the forfeited bail. 1t happens that
Mr.. Frank Agnew, one of the contractors
who are building the West hotel, is frieni
of the bondsman, and hearing of Garrity's
Imprisonment here he lost nc time in &C
quainting his Chicago friend Of his where
abouts.
Mayor Ames was written in reference
to the matter, and was strenuously urged
to exert what influence be possessed in OBJ
tanning tie discharge of Clarity, in order
TO be in the Cook county court
on the date set for the sitting of the grand
Jury so as to release his bondsman from the
obligation. An understanding was had
with the recent grand jury here and they
broguht in no indictment against the pris-
oner. A requisition was granted and last
evening at o'clock Garrity left here on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train
for The Garden City in custody Of detec-
tives Horace M. Elliott and James Wiley,
who had been sent for him. They were
accompanied by Sheriff Stoddart who will
go with them as far as Winona. Garrity's
partner Ia the train robbery has been sen
fenced to Joliet for one year, and there is
no doubtSof Garrity's being cent for the
same term OF imprisonment or longer.