St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-14
SUNS OF TEN SUMMERS
viii Melt Shows of Ten Winter
Before Snapp Is Set Free.

Will Melt Shows of Ten Winters
Before Snapp Is Set Free.
Copeland J. Snapp WINGED yesterday
morning under the hOmily administered
to him by Judge Kerr, and when he was
sentenced.tO ten years and six months
i'll the penltentiary, he looked like he
was ready to Tellnquish life. He leaned
being pronounced, and afterwards
looked so faint that Bailiff Conroy sup
ported him to a seat. When asked by
the court if he had anything TO say why
sentence should not be pronounced he
gave negative reply. MIR. FauntierOy,
his attorney, SAID he mad nothing more
TO say in the case, except that he hoped
the court would be lenient in view of the
fact that Snapp had pleaded guilty.
r Alter being sworn 10 answer queS-
tiGnS to be propOunded by the court
Snap said that he was born in Louis
vile. is thirty-fve years old and has
been clerk by occupation.
Z Judge Kerr then reviewed the cir
cumstances of the crime and comment
ed upon the circumstances of the cul-
prit. He expressed regret at being
required to pass sentence upon young
man who had held a high position in
society, who came from good parents
and has an eStimable family. Snapp
WINGED at this allusion to his past and
the court proceeded as follows:
THE man who does not have the
temptations that are constantly before
criminals and is not moved by poverty
is more reprehensible than the ordinary
criminal"
-
stances to plead for leniency in your
case" continued the stern judge. 1.-The
extent of your crime, with which | have
familiarized myself since yesterday,
shows your skill at forging and the
familiarity. with the practices of a
fOrger. You seemed to have deliberately
aTrayed yourself against society, to
| cripple business interests and the sta
bility of progress of business inStitu-
| tons. i realize that there are innocent
ones WhO must suffer in connection with
your punishment. but innocent ones
must always suffer when the guilty are
punished. No just judge can. grant
leniency to the guilty with the feeling
that he is protecting innocent sufferers,
| and l certainly would be untrue 10 my
position were l to grant lenIency on
| these grounds. We must protect So
! ciety, we must protect other families
than the ones that will suffer.
1T is extremely Improbable that you
would reform were you allowed to run
at large. think that the only way for
reformation of you is to place you where
there are no temptations, and where
you will have an opportunity TO reflect
upon your crimes. Your pleading guilty
| will certainly reduce your sentence to
| hx-.l 0f x,ad
the county the expense of prosecution.
Upon the indictment for forgery in
| the same degree, to which you have ju~t
| pleaded guilty, the judgment of the
court and your sentence is that you be
taken thence to the state prison at Still
water, and there confined at hard labor
for the term of eight years.
Upon the indictment charging you
with grand larceny Ill the second de-
gree, to which you have also pleaded
guilty, the judgment of the court and
your sentence is that you be confined at
hard labor in the states prison at Still
water for the term of two years and six
| months. Said term of Imprisonment to
commence on the expiration of the
term to which you have just been SEN
fenced under the indictment of forgery
| in the second degree."
SpaDp was then escorted to a seat by
Bailiff Conroy. He was much agitated
and depressed. While the court was
passing sentence he trembIed and shiv-
cred at the cutting remarks. He rallied
in few minutes, and was led off to
| jail. He will be taken to the peni-
| Tertiary today, probably. The other
three indictments are still pending. and
it is said that numerous others might be
fOupd against him as his naPuiafiano
| amount to S6,052.33.