The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-17
RosA's LIGHT Sentence
Mill Serve Eleven Years and Six
Months in pcnitcntiary.
OTHER SENTENCES PASSED
Rendham burglars Get Long Terms in
Cherry Iiili-vau Dyke viii Spend
Three Years and Seven Months
There Other Sentences.

Murderer Leonardo Rosa was SEN
| fenced Saturday morning by Judge Ed
| wards to spend eleven years and six
months in the Eastern penitentiary.
The prisoner was once tried and con-
victed in the first degree. The crime
was most brutal, but the court was not
satisfied with the evidence and grant
ed Rosa Il new trial. When he was To
| b" put on trial the second time last
Monday he entered plea of guilty 10
the several counts in the indictment
| and the court fixed the grade of crime
as of the second degree.
| The dead body of Vito Iarusso. rid
died with bullets. was found at ) a.
m. on Feb. ". 1895. lying alongside the
road on Duck" street. Dunmore. The
| deceased had been aroused out Of his
| bed at o'clock the night before by
Rosa and three Others who We're going
| around carousins. They went into
two saloons and drank freely: it was
not cel tain what time the shooting was
| done. The arrest of Rosa and the
three companions followed and the
| oIoner's jury placed all the blame on
Rosa The details of the trial are still
fresh in memory.
Sca:en:c OF Van pykc and Others.
W. J. Van Dyke, John Moran and
Elias Thomas who We're convicted OF
| burglarizing the Methodist Episcopal
parsonage at Rendham last August
and perpetrating the outrage of bind
ing Rev. Cochrane and wife with u
rope. were sentenced L. the peniten-
tiary by Judge Gunster. Van Dyke got
three years and seven months; he is
married and is 80 years old. Moran
got three years and one month; hei II
years old. unmarried: his mother was
killed by street car on Main street,
MinoOka. last June. Thomas was SEN
fenced to two years and three months,
he Is unmarried and Is ~ years old.
John Cloth. who stole $l35 and Il note
for 500 from Dominick Ambrows, of
Austin Heights, was sentenced to pay
fine of $50 and spend one year and SIX
months in the penitentiary.
Joseph Kalinoski and Joseph Olschc-
ski. convicted of assault and battery on
Constable Max koehler. of Priceburg,
were sentenced. The former will spend
month in jail and the latter defend
ant ten days.
Joseph Badrashkat, convicted of as
sault and battery on Michael Sulla. was
fined so and given thirty days in the
county Jail.
Seven Months for McIoughiin.
Michael Mclaughlin, the ungallant
young man who went out walking with
Katie McDevitt from a ball in Mears'
hall one night last summer and robbed
her of her pOcketbook containing Sll.
was sentenced to restore the money,
pay the costs and spend seven months
in the county jail.
Raphael Cherillo. for striking Joseph
DeLoskey on the jaw with stone, was
sentenced to nay II fine of 81 and the
costs. Thomas Conncll, the Dury"a
liveryman. found guilty of assault and
battery ON Newton Williams Il MooSic
stage driver, was sentenced to pay
fine of S25 and the costs.
Thomas Henry Clay Maloney. Pat
rick Maloney. Stanley .iialon. Joseph
Towrowski. Joseph cZarnecki. were
sentenced to nay the costs in cases
where they were concerned.
Joseph Reed was directed to give
bonds in the sum of $500 that he Will
pay his wife SO a month for her sup
port: Il similar sentcnc" was imposed
ON Herbert Nash, another wife deser-
ter,