St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-10
Halls HARD SENTENCE.
Judge Kelly Denied a New Trial In Hal
Reid's Case.
FIFTEEN YEARS IN PRISON.
Such Is the Mandate Of the Court Hal
Protests That He Is In 80
n0Cent.

$50 help me God, am innocent.
Thus spake j. Hal Reid, as, with folded
arms and a dramatic attitude, he an
swered the query of Judge Kelly:
What has the prisoner to say why SEN
tence should not be paSsed?'
Yesterday morning Judge Kelly, in
with Judge Wilkin, an
nounced that he would override the mo-
ton for a new trial, saying subStan-
TALLY that Reid had suffered no preju-
dice in the alleged misconduct of his
attorney; that they did not see but that
the evidence supported the verdict and
they found no errors on the record.
Judge Kelly suspended sentence I'M
til o'clock i'll the afternoon, at which
hour a few attorneys and spectators
were present. Reid was brought into
court pale and downcaSt. His confident
air had gone. though he was still laden
with gestures theatrical. None of Halls
relatives were present except his uncle,
who was sitting with Reid'S counsel,
Mr.. O'Brien. Mr.. O'Brien addressed
the court in behalf of Reid, stating that
he still believed him innocent,
and asked a stay of sentence for
five days, which was promptly denied.
Judge Kelly then asked the usual
question. and Reid responded as given
above. He was sentenced to fifteen
years at hard labor at Saltwater. Reid
turned white as sheet and, turning
around to the reporters in the room, eX-
claimed:
"Gentlemen of the press, you have
aided materially in convicting me,
But his speech was cut short by
Deputy Lukenheimer. who rushed him
from the court room at $40 gait.
Sheriff Richter had intended to take
him to saltwater at once, but granted
him delay until this afternoon i'll order
that he might see and take leave of his
family. His uncle was too aStounded,
at the length of the sentence. to say a
word, and was almost as white as the
prisoner himself.
Halls MOTHER AND SISTER
arrived shortly from Minneapolis and
went at once to the jail. Here a GLOBE
reporter found them all, later in the
afternoon, and sorry looking group it
was. Seated in circle in the corridor,
at the head of the stairs, were the three,
engaged in conversation in a low tone.
They ceased as the reporter en-
tered. All were pale and weeping.
Halls eyes were blOOdshot and he looked
as though in the depths of despair, while
his mother, though in deep sorrow, was
calm and dignifed.
''Have you any statement to make,
Mr.. Reid?" asked the reporter.
1--WE have no statements to make
to the newspapers: they have
treated my boy too meanly," said Mrs.
Reid,
Mother" said Hal warningly.
The reporter repeated his question.
and Hal replied:
Il have nothing to say, boys, except
that | am innocent. The knowledge of
my innocence keep SINE up. l appeal to
the public and the supreme cOnrt. [
will be taken to Saltwater tomorrow
and will remain there until"
He has nothing more to say" put in
his mother again.
..:Mother, keep quiet" he said and con-
tilf0ed; land will remain there until
May at least, at which time the case will
come before the supreme court. / can
not tell whether l will get new trial
OF not. l am living on hope"
The sister said nothing. The ladies
remained with their son and brother all
the afternoon. Reid will be taken to
Saltwater at o'clock this after
hooi' 1lo uoIoIIouo 1dttie OUTFIT
made one OF the group. No one knew
console the trio.
SAY A KIND WORD.
Late last evening telephone
message to the GLOBE said: Hal
Reid wishes to see GLOBE reporter at
thee JAIL" and as the mountain could
not come to MObammed," GLOBE man
called at the jail. Hal was lying on his
cot, but arose and extended his hand
through the bars of his cell door when
the reporter entered. He was still very
much depressed in spirits, but smiled
family as he said:
II am CAD to see you. [ took the lib
erty of sending for you to tell you a few
little things before 1 leave l respect
fully ask you to say kind word for me
in your paper. You, being in the news
paper business, are man of the world.
L have been hOnOred with the same dis
tinctiOp. and you know L would
never commit such crime at
O'Clock in the evening, when every
body was around. The hardest part of
was obliged to tell my mother of the
sentence. She knew nothing about it
until she came to the Jail. In commit
ting that crime, one would forget that
his mother was woman. The knOWl-
edge OF my innocence buOyS me up, but
the blow comes harder because l sup
posed all along, as did my attorney, that
| would be acquitted. l know that from
time immemOrial men. when the prison
stared them in the face, have said they
were innocent. The term is chestnut,
but in my case reason alone suggests in
nOcence. l have little girl, named
Hazel, good mother and sister. How
could L so far forget myself and them as
to do such thing? 1t is notable fact
that every time have been broke my
wife has left me. Some years ago in
Cincinnati l held half interest in a
newspaper. When it went under my
wife left me. Then
ICAME TO MINNEAPOLIS
and started the Merchants and Manu-
the first year. A gentleman bought a
His wife took sick and he borrowed
5000 of it back. Meanwhile | had been
spending the profits in fixing up home
for my wife, counting on this money
from the gentleman. He failed to pay
it, and again failed. My wife then re-
fused to come, Then | started the st.
Paul Trade Review with my father.
The first work came to $2l. My father
tossed me the odd dollar, my first profits
in the business. l sat down at once and
wrote letter to my wife, enclosing the
81, saying:
as My Dear Little Wife: I enclose YOU
the first dollar | have made, and hope
1T means many more. Lovingly,
HAL
A week after that I went to the post
Office and was handed a letter in my
wife's handwriting. The envelope con-
tanned nothing but blank sheet of
paper and one-d0llar bill. Then [
went to Cincinnati and. while my wife
was out, took my little Hazel away to
my own room. My wife came after her
and mother was in the room at the time.
Mother said, Hal, you are my child,
Hazel is hers so gave her the child.
Then l returned to Minneapolis and
started the Minneapolis Scavenger COM