Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-01-01
Eight Eight More convicts ArriIe at the
State Penitentiary, Among Them
8sS$ Joe Remington.
Interesting Christmas Entertainments
at the Various Churches Christ
mas Eve.
Oscar H. Will, the Scotsman, Issues
His Catalogue for the
Year 1892.
Eight wore Prisoners Arrive.

The morning train Thursday stopped
at the penitentiary and the eight prison
ers from Fargo were taken off. It is
said when the brakeman announced the
station, "Penitentiary," half of the men
in the car were startled. The Fargo
Argus speaks of the sentence CT these
men as follows:
AT 5 O'clock the prisoners who have been
convicted during the present term of court
were brought up and sentenced.
John Pitts, convicted of assault and bat
terry, was the first man ordered forward.
In prOnuuncing sentence upon him Judge
Mcconnell stated his crime was the most
brutal, u~nprovOked and prcmediated OF
any&crime OF manning that has come up
before him in his judicial career. He did
not know but That the jury had made a
'&9istake Ill rendering the verdict they did,
4 and did not see what evidence had infiu-
,Xenced the minds OF the jurors in the pris-
goner's favor. The testimony all tended TO
show that tile crime was ~preineditated and
5%shOckingly brutal. He sentenced the pris-
oner to the full limit OF the law-thirty
days il. the county Jail and fine Of 800.
!. IL. White, the forger, was the next
man. Judge Mcconnell said that the facts
in regard to his crime were not OF an eX-
SOOukuEIy oSSAoNoGthS hoOuAS, ohu AN
thought that the prisoner did not deserve
the full limit of the law, but that a years
Imprisonment would probably mete out
sufficient punishment. However, if he
sentenced the nan for a year, he would be
liberated during a season when he prob
ably could not secure work, and thus one
end Ofjustice, that OF reforming the crllmi-
nal, would not be subserved. Therefore
che sentence Of the cOur would he nine
months Imprisonment. White is a man of
good appearance. While sentence was
being passed he stood erect, with his arms
folded. All the sentences OF the court were
made of such length OF time that the
when work would be easy to secure.
The next man called forward was Joe
Remington. the notorious murderer.
Tie judges remarks to him about his
crime were affecting. By one act, said he,
the prisoner had made a woman a widow,
so? The prisoner would be called
encs of his Maker. 1t is a sad
thing, said the judge, to see IL boy just ell
the years of manhood. not yet %
years OF age, compelled to suffer the re-
maindpr of his Natural life behind the
walls of a prison. This life held nothing
for the prisoner-al! the pleasures of a
glappy. existence which fall to the lot OF
man he is deprived OF. Henceforth lie
would be buried behind the stone walls and
He probably did not at presel t
realize the awful fate the future had in
store for him, but as the years roll around
the Indebtedness of his position would be-
come tearfully apparent. Thr court con-
tirmed the verdict of the jury, and sen
fenced the prisoner to pass the remainder
OF his life in the states prison at hard
labor.
William Howard. who shot Charles Curt
man, was sentenced to five years in states
Northern Pacific car, got eight and a half
months; Jacob Nelson, for grand larceny,
nine and one-half months: Frank Mitchell.
for petit larceny, thirty days in the county
Jail; Frank Howard and James Rogers.
who looted the Sun Office, eight and seven
and q half months respectively.