The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-12-29
GET . THEIR PUNISHMENT.
Graves, Haggerty and Sullivan
Receive Their Sentences Tor
Grand Larceny.
The Criminal Cases Against Fran
els Murray and Philip Cor
nish Dismissed.

AT ten O'Clock Tuesday Caarles
Graves, Vim. Haggerty Jr. and lin
otbv Sullivan were brought into court
to rece We their sentences, each lor
the crime of grand larceny in the
second degree.
Graves was first ordered to stan0 to
receive his sentence. He stated that
he is % years Of age, and had never
been imprisoned before. He had no
trade, but had been working on the
railroad for two years.
Judge Severance said that he had
concluded to send the prisoner to the
reformatory at ST Cloud. The prison.
.er was young man and had been 60
ing in bad company for years, ana
people believe that it would be oetter
for him to go where he. could reform
and make new resolutions Tor tne
future, In the reformatOry he would
not be disgraced by wearing prison
garb. or be treated as severely as IN
the state prison. The sentence is not
limited. At St. Cloud the prisoner is
put in a certain class and is promoted
to higher class on continued gooo
behavior, and is then paroled. Al the
reformatory are almost as good edu-
cational facilities as in any education
al institution in the state. The length
of imprisonment depends upon the
conduct of the prisoner. If it is good,
he is very soon paroled, but il he vlo-
lates his parole he is returned. A per-
son can be kept there for five years
for grand larceny in the second
degree, but the prisoner, If he ablded
by the rules, would be let out on
-.,s,raln of tho nnh of a wear AT LEAST.
Friends can influence a parole earlier
than otherwise under the strict rules
of the institution. The court then
sentenced the prisoner to the state re-
formatory at ST. Cloud.
Haggerty stated that he is % years
of age, has no trade, and has been
working on railroad for year and
a half The court sentenced him also
to the reformatory at ST. Cloud, saying
that the remarks about the institu-
tion which he had just made would
apply in his case. The prisoner had
testified that he could neither read
nor write. 1t was strange thing
that this is so, having been brought
up in Mankato under the caves of so
many educational institutions. There
must be something wrong on his part
or that of his family. At ST. Cloud
he would have to learn to read and
write, as it is part of the disci-
pine there.
Addressing himself to both prison
ers, Judge Severance stated that he
wanted them to come out of the re-
fOrmatory with different natures and
tendencies. He wanted them to
abandon forever the use of intoXicat-
ing liquors, which had been the bane
of their lives. If they had left that
alone they would not be where they
are now. There is no necessity for
the use of in oXicating liquors. A
large class of people claim that drunk
enness is a disease, but they do not
know what they say, for it has no
foundation. A person can give him
self almost any disease by it's use. If
it is disease, some bad effects ought
to result from it, but prisoners who
have been in jail for months look bet
ter after coming out and feel no eff
fects of disease. There are 10000, 900
Mohammedans, and there is not a
case of drunkenness among them. The
Koran forbids it's use and they do not
use it. 1t is impossible to find case
where a man suffers from the lack of
it in prison. There is no disease that
controls mans hand or opens and
shuts his mouth. Under certain Cir
cumstanceS man may have difficulty
to restrain himself after taking one
drink, but the advocates of the disease
doctrine do the human race more
harm than all the advocates of all the
other false doctrines in the world.
Timothy Sullivan stated that he is
common laborer, forty years of age,
and has worked at the carpenter
trade for eight or nine years. The
court stated that the prisoner is too
old to be sent to the state reforma-
tory, being over thirty years of age.
Substantially the same system has
been adopted in the state prison as in
the reformatory, and it has substan-
TALLY the same facilities for reform
The so-called hard labor there is Of
the very lightest kind. and 1t is a re-