The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-18
Justice Melted Out to a Colored
Brute.
NICHOLSON is. SENTENCED.
BURGLARS SENT UP FOR TWO
YEARS EACH.
Walter TiIdcn's Fate-The Juveniles
Go Free-Morris Brash Arraigned
For Observation-Disclosures Against
the City-A Mining suit-Probate
Proceedings.

ritt's division and the turnkey depart
ed with as tough a trinity as ever
operated in the world of crime.
The capital prize was drawn by
George Nicholson, the lustful Hotten-
tot who, on the eve of the holidays,
dragged Lena Nelson, a domestic en-
ployed at the Manitou, into his haunts
of squalor and, imprisoning the power
less girl, outraged her. The court,
who surveyed the Unlike image that
stood before him, appeared to have
been suddenly overcome by a rush of
blood from Dixie, and without effort
to conceal his scorn turned the batter
les OF the bench upon the appalling
magnitude Of a crime that had been
once before attempted by the burly
convict, his second frenzy being graf
flied at the expense of the woman who
now sat behind him. The convict, said
the court, had been ably defended, and
society demanding protection from
such fiends, he would fix the prisoners
punishment at twenty years in the pen
itentiary. The brute never WINGED and
stepping back into the rogues' column,
kept time with them as they ambled
out into the marshars office.
WILLIAMS GETS TWO YEARS.
Frank Williams, the insolent thug
who had led Judge Howat round
through the intricacies of professional
slang. was represented by John Lu
Taylor, as he rose to receive sentence,
Mr. Taylor who had made stubborn
fight for his client, urging it upon the
court that the evidence did not justify
the verdict and asking that the mercy
of the bench be extended him Will
liams, who had the afternoon before
been convicted of burglary, was there
upon sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary. He has a record of crime
that would span the entire frontier
and has studied landscape from the
bars of almost every western prison.
FOR STEALING CANDY.
Ed Lewis, the enterprising tinker
who broke the seal on a Rio Grande
Western freight car from which he
medicine without a whimper and was
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
WALTER TILDEN'S FATE.
This sophomore in the school of
crime, who has oft appeared to plead
to petty offenses. was whisked in from
the city Jail, whittier he had been sent
by the police magistrate who had ad-
judged him guilty of petit larceny
The youth, a frail boy of II, was ac-
companied by his parents who had adj
mitted him incorrigfble and requested
that he be sent to the reform school
at Ogden. The court consented and
Walter was soon on his way to refor-
nation at the Junction city.
A FORGER ARRAIGNED.
Morris Brash was brought in TO
plead to an Indictment charging him
with forgery and allowed two days in
which to enter his plea. Brash is an
enterpr1sing penman, who, in February
last, forged a check in the sum of So
drawn upon McCornick's bank and
payable to the order of Joe Morris. He
succeeded in unloading the check upon
M. Drosdowitz who, upon ascertaining
| his loss, reported it to the police and
| BraSh was arrested.
THE YOUTHS GO FREE.
The diminutive Robin Hoods, who
have been in durance since a day ir
December last, are again roaming the
forest the prosecution having failed
to draw the jury over into its line OF
thinking in the case against Albert
Scott, and voluntarily disnissing the
| indictments against his alleged Frial
Tucks-Brig Chapman and Oscar
Johnson.
Proceedings in Judge Merritts div.
ision opened with the trial of young
Scott still in progress. The prosecu
ton had established that the beardless
prisoners were the parties who ha6
disposed of the plumber they were in
dicted for stealing. all of which the
defense had admitted at the opening
The defense admitted the selling Of
the machines for junk, but set up thai
a '|tall man with a red moustache'
had disposed of it to the youths.
Mr.. Reilly, closing the testimony FOL
the defense, stated that it had made
an unsuccessful attempt to procure one
Peter Elliott as witness in behalf o.
his client, but that upon sighting the
deputy Elliott had made his escape
from the back door. Deputy
duce the body of the fugi
tive who stated upon his arraignmen
a few moments later that his only
excuse for refusing was his aversion
for notoriety
Elliott testified to the market value
of the trimming machines, which HI
fixed at sos, whereas the grand jury
had fixed it at $50.
The evidence closed at this point
arguments followed, and the jury re
firing, brought in a verdict of no
II see no possibility of convictins
the others said Judge Howat, as thu
jury filed out 1T may go forth witt
their young lives that they are no
guilty but don't let them do it again.
The boys were pressing forward to
wards the door, when the court halted
them and advised them after they hat
once had their liberty in peril, to pur
sue a future course that would max
reputable citizens of them.
CRIMINAL SETTINGS.
Another list of stars from the darl
world of crime were yesterday bile
by Assistant District Attorney Howa
flor Mondays opening before Judge MeI
rift.
Monday-The People VS.. Olof Ander
ison. Alfred Honey and Robert Brin
ton, three indictments, charging tn
: defendants guilty of robbery and lal
J ceny. The offense is alleged to hav
been committed on November 10 las
at which time the defendants garrote
and robbed George Schoenbaum of
cents, a pocket knife, etc.
Tuesday-The People vs.. Mimi
Campbell, househreallings Defendar
is charged with entering the dwellin
of Mrs. Margaret J. Young with felor
ious intent.
The People VS. James Sylvester ala
Jim Stiley, burglary. Defendant !
; lcharged with feloniously entering tn
store room of Felice Santolini.
The People VS.. Joseph Gallaghe
housebreaking Defendant was arres
, ed for breaking into the residence {
Thomas M. Patton with intent to bul
! glarize it.
SIinatiae From Merritt's.
The following formal orders appear
ed upon the blotter:
Midgley & Sons Co. vs.. Arthur MeaC
Inotion for judgment continued to Eel
Iruary "a for argument.
T. A Wallace VS.. John Beck; defend
: ant allowed eight days in which
answer.