Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-11
DAY OF SENTENCES.
Convicted Prisoners at Bangor
Given Just Punishment.
Murderers Joe and Newell Gabriel
Get Ten ard Five Years.
Other Criminals Given from Four Months to
Five Years Imprisonment.

Bangor, March 1O.-In the supreme
court, Saturday, Chief Justice Peters
presiding, Joe and Newell Gabriel, who
last December, near Millinocket station
on the Bangor & Aroostook, killed Euacio
Comiilio, Spaniard, and Joe Langlois
Frenchman, and burned the bodies
were arraigned for sentence.
The court room was crowded when the
Indians were brought in. Tho men looked
better than at any time since their arrest
having been allowed to specially prepare
themselves for their appearance in court
They were as stolid as usual.
The case against Joe Gabriel was first
considered. He had pleaded guilty of
manslaughter and the county attorney
moved for sentence. The Indian told the
chief justice that he had nothing to say
why sentence should not be passed, and
he was promptly given the full extent Of
the law, 10 years at hard labor in the State
prison The only change in the prisoner S
countcnancc was to assume Il satisfied
look, as if pleased at SO easy an escape.
Newell Gabriel was given a hearing be-
fore his sentence was filed, and both In
dams told their stories They declared
that Newell was not in the camp when
the tragedy occurred, but returned as Joe
ran out of the building very much excited.
Joe told his story of the crime in full
for the first time 1t was, in brief, that
he and the Spaniard quarrelled, and while
rolling upon the floor he seized u Ratchet
and Drained his antagonist. During the
Il nj
the fire caught from the stove He claims
he did not sec the Fronchman, but says the
latter may have been in tho lower bunk
drunk.
Chief Justice Peters said he didn't sup
pose that all the facts would ever be
known in the case. If Joseph set fire to
the camp and burned the Frenchman he
was guilty of horrible murder If
Newell was about and knew of it, he was
guilty of murder in the first or second
degree.
The chief justice said he was inclined
to consider Joseph MS the principal in the
crime and Newell as the accessory He
had at first thought ne would make th'
sentence seven years, but to give effect to
what doubt might exist he would make 1t
six years.
The clerk then read the sentence, Newell
standing with his eyes half closed and
hands folded, and not a change of feature
noticeable.
Harvey J. Emery, the man who as
saulted George Reynolds with carving
knife at the lattcr's home on Spring street,
on Dec II last, was the first prisoner
called in the afternoon, for hearing He
was sentenced to four months in Jail at
hard labor.
Thomas Shaughnessy, for burglary at
the G. W. Merrill Furniture Company
store, last fall was sentenced to four years
at hard labor in the State prison.
Leroy Green, alias Gilderoy Granville,
for forgery, was sentenced to two years at
hard labor in State prison.
The famous Osias Bean, Cd, whose
operations caused a sensation in this State
and who was badly wanted in several
places for forgery, was sentenced to two
years at hard labor in State prison for a
forgery committed here.
]. Frank Frost, for adultery, was
sentenced to one year in jail
,joshia b. Russell for compound larceny.
was given two and onc-half years In
prison.
The motion for new trial in the case
of Mrs. Mary Cowan, the condemned
murtiercss, was sent to the law court.
Court finally adjourned after session
of 90 days. There have been more Inn
portant cases before this court than al
any other term for years.