Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-25
CRIMINALS SENTENCED.
"Bud" Warner Gets Nine Years in the
Penitentiary-Other Cases.

In the Criminal Court, Chief Justice Bing-
ham, this morning Theodore Burch, the driver
charged with forgery in raising R. o. freight
bills. plead guilty and asked the mercy of the
court. The court imposed the lowest sentence,
one year and one day in the Albany peniten-
tiary.
Charles Smith. charged with violating the
policy law, plead guilty. Mr.. Bendheim stated
that he had been in Jail nearly three months
| and when arrested he had some $40 more taken
he might not have been kept in Jail, and he
/ asked that lenency be shown.
Mr.. Clagett suggested that this was q class OF
offense they were endeavoring to break up
and he looked on the business as worse than
| highway robbery.
The court imposed sentence Of two months
| in Jail and to pay fine of $40
Bud" Warner, convicted of HOUSEKEEPING
| in entering the house of VIM Muhleisen on
| Tuesday last. was put to the bar for sentence.
Gen. E. c. Darlington made an appeal for him
| on account OF his delicate health He believed
that the prisoner was now, judging from his
| letters and conversation, n reformed man. he
| called Mr.. Woodward of the Jail, who testified
that Bud was a well-Dehaved prisoner Mr..
| Ciagett said Bud was one of the best-known
criminals in the District, and at one time there
! were enough suspended sentences to have con-
fined him thirty years.
Warner stated he was born in Havana in
! 1864, was brought here by his father when
three years OF age and placed with Mrs. Warner
from whom bis father took him ut eight years
of age, and she taught him and made him steal
when sixteen years OF age he was tried on four
cases and sentenced to twenty-eight years IN
the penItentiary. but the sentence was changed
to one of seven years. of which he served four
years and nine months. He came back fully
determined to live an honest life. but whenever
A. 1art n nnl
along and report him an ex-colvict and he
would be discharged. Whenever the police
saw him they did not allow HIM to make an
honest living.
The chief justice said tina. he had known ex-
convlcts to thoroughly reform and lead honest
lives. and if one persisted i'll doing right they
could, Ill a measure, regain the confidence of
the community. The record was such that he
could not assume that this was the only lapse
from path of honesty on his part. If it WAS
true that he had been educated to crime and
could not help stealing. the safety of himself
and the protection OF the public demanded a
long sentence. Under the circumstances he
felt 1t his duty to sentence him to the peniten-
tiary at Albany for the period OF nine years,
a little less than the limit
Mortimer Westcott, convicted on the 18th
instant of larceny from the person Ga ring from
a young man in May LAST, when asked what he
had to say protested his innocence. saying that
he had sold the ring FOR Joe Smith. He now
nav! lOsb INC sdNinSS W HSt years duu utu llo
money TO pay an attorney to press for new
trial. but he would call attention to the jury
having recommended him to mercy, and he had
been i'll jail since MAY last.
The court said that III consideration Of the
recommendation he was inclined to say that he
should escape tho penitentiary and imposed q
sentence Of eleven months i'll Jail.
Catholic Church Corner Stone Laying.
The corner stone of a new Catholic church at
Oxon Hill, Prince Georges county, Nd, to
take the place Of the present edifce st. Igna-
thus, will be laid tomorrow. Row. Thomas
Hughes of Anacostia, DC. is pastor. Rev
Joseph A. Cunnano OF ST. Mary's Church.
Marlboro, has been delegated by Cardinal
Gibbons to perform the services, and the SER
mon on the occasion will be delivered by the
Rev. Charles Currier of the Redemptorist
Order. st. Ignatius is one of the oldest
churches in southern Maryland and the first to
oficate there the Jesuit fathers from
Alexandria. Va. The National Guard Band will
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