The Helena independent., 1893-12-17
f0R TWENTY YEARS MORE
Judge Hunt Imposes Sentence on
Young Robert Camp for High
way Robbery.
HAD He Boon older Ho Would
Have Gone Up for
Life.
na~rv Edmundson, stuart Russell and
John Hewitt Get One Year Apiece
from Judge Knowles.

N 4OiIlOns en0 young 0lR1WAymbu was sen'
Z tenced By Judge Hunt to spend another
twenty years in the state prison for hold
In up 4 man within thirty-six houts after
he had shed his convicts suit and been
made fres man by ths clemenoy Of the
governor and the hoard 'of pardons.. With
ths usual good tinae allowed. II he earns IL
Camp will have to aervs eleven yoars and
three months In prison. He wss IL yean
old whom conviotsd At Dillon. He 10 20
nov. when he gets throuRh with this
term hs will Do past 81. Rsleased on Sat-
urday. ! highway tobbsr on Sunday. and
arrested on Monday, he will whom he
leaves Deer Lodge again. have enjoyed less
than forty-eight hours liberty In over
fourteen years.
Camp was brought up before Judge Hunt
IL the dist.ict court yesterday morning for
sentence. The Judge had ordered q
subj oenh to be issued for Charles II. Craig,
whom young Camp had held up and robbed
OF his watch In order that he might be
QUESTIONED as 10 some Of. the facts before
the highwayman was sentenced for the
otine TO which be had already pleaded
guilty. After Mr., Craig had bssu sworn
Judge Hunt asked him: ''At the time this
defendant robbcd you whore did he hold
shs pistol2"
.During the time he was searching my
person he held the pistol at the back OF my
neck" answsred Mr.. Craig.
In what condition did he order you to
put your hands?"
HE told mo to put my hands up ma
elevated them."
did he say anything?''
stNOAhiuu n ara than nat "A he Asrnn
The Judge then said to the defendant
Camp: "You may stand up. You were
shayQsd with ths crinle OF robbery, and By
your counsel entered plen Of guilty. Have
yon now anything TO say why sentence Of
tho court should not be pronounced upon
you? To this the prisoner replied NE,
sir."
The court then asked Carl Rasch the de-
fendant's counsel. II he desired to say any
thing. Mr.. Rasch' said: Il think there 10
one In connection with this
ease. may II please the court, on which
would be justified toinvoks the mercy Of
this court. and ask for lsnisncy. and that ID
the age OF the prisoner. He is but II ysars
Of age according to his statements, and
hardly able TO realize the enormity Of tho
offence he has committed. And il would
seem TO mo that young man having been
committed whom nothing more than An in
FAINT. and coming In connection and oon-
ters, and having had no opportunity
for long period Of time to connect him
self with any persons or institutions of q
tendency that woald elevate, or tend TO sle-
vats the oRrrsnt of his mind.-that this
oonnsction has bssn such that his act may
The ideas that have bssn given him in the
surroundings in which hs has lived for the
last few years. Now. II this defendant was
man OF mature years and fully realized
the condition in which he would bring
himsslf. in case of detection. by the act
which hs committed II would be = different
thinc.-but hardly think he did realize
his position; and il, ~ say, this man was
of mature years, and had realizsd this CON
dition, and was of such derravod character
and 20 lost to all sense OF decency and vir-
tus % to commit this crime merely a. the
esult of his depravity, then ii would be
we'll to confns him in place whore there
was NO chance or NO opportunity would bs
given him at any time hereafter. to endau-
ger tho Quistnde and this safety Of tho
community. But it seems to me lt Would
be hard and cruel and inhunan to think
person Of this age-l7 years-would be so
depraved ~ to DO utterly lost to any re-
form and to any good influences that might
be brought to bear on him hereafter. and
think that By extending lsnienoy 10 this
defendant. the lowest penalty that may be
Inflicted will bring him out Of the sur
roundinRs to which he will hereafter be
confined in suoh a time that he will profit
by the lesson learned; If he ia given
chance to better himself and TO make
man Of himself and TO do what is right.
think that he will have learned by the ex-
perisnce that he has gone threugh, and the
experiences OF tho sentence which will be
imposed upon him, to improve himself.
am satisfied from conversations that /
have had with him that he does not realize
hA v,h h. l.. IN -
due to the pfecepts and teachings of tho
companions with whom he has associated
for the last few years which has given
him al idea that tho act whIcn he has
committed is an act Of heroism rather than
cIime. And bsaina IN mind that he has a
long life before him and that thsre may be
= chance. and that there may be such q
thing as improvement l would ask your
honor TO be as lenient with him as the law
will kermit."
Judge Hunt then said: II have taken
some pains to look into the record of this
defendant and end that each and every
year OF the three years for which he was
sentenced to the penitentiary from Dillon
has been marked by lack OF good time. l
fnd be gave his age as II when he was sem
seneed from Beaverhsad county and no
gives it here as II; he gave his
name as Richard Rogers there, and here
he gives it as Robert c. Camp. He served
As so ~ Ao' ouIBlaEy anu 1OE DToahluQ jail.
1000 time was extended to him through
sno leRlency of the board of pardons; and
no Is old enough to have understood that
lsniency was extended to him. and that the
commission of another crime would be
lfauEht with the most serious consequences
10 him. There is. of course, hope for any
Doy OF his age. II he had passed the age OF
mature reflection l would feel ii my duty
70 Impose upon him penal.y that would
require him to remain in prison for the
balance of his natural life; but IL ID
possible. and hope that it is probable,
shas by the time he gets to be 80 years Of
ageany moral SO visibility that there may be
IN him by virtue of heredity in
any form, and seriousness of
the disgrace that has twice
oelallen him will come into his mind and
Will be sort OF guiding motive to him to
retrieve himself and pass the closing years
OF his life as useful ctizen to his people
and himself. But the highway robbsr is
Very near the murderer. and it is more than
likely that il Mr.. Craig had moved the
other night to defend himself that the de-
iendent would be here charged with muir
der In the first dsRros. The sentence of
.he court is that you be con fined At hard
labor. in the psnitentiary at Deer Lodge
Tor the period of twenty years from to- dav,
and you stand committed to the sheriffs
custody, 70 be oy him delivered to the state
authorities"
Al tho announcement of the sentence
Camp broke down completely and was led
away crying.
ANOTHER HOLD-UP CAsE.
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