The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-06-10
NEW HOPE AND BUCKS COUNTY. PA,


Jacob Munich, Jr., ia the name of the
new proprietor of the Delaware House,
New Hope. lie will take possession next
Monday.
The New Hope Cornet Band filed an
| engagement at Hopewell. On Memorial
Day and have an engagement at the same
place for July 4th.
"A cyclone passed through a woods
belonging to Patrick McEntee, a mile
| above Bridgeton, Pa, on Thursday af-
ternoon week, destroying great deal
of the timber. Large trees were lifted
out of the ground by the roots, and many
Others were twisted off and broken to
pieces. The damage will amount to a
considerable. A school house 10 the vi
cinity was partly unroofed, and other
damage done.
Hogan, the harm Burner, Gets Forty
Years
D,ylestocn Democrat
John Hogan, probably the most danger
GUS fire fiend ever within the borders of
this law-abiding community, met with the
severe punishment his many daslardly
crimes deserved when he was sentenced
by Judge Yerkes yesterday Hume 81 to
the longest term OF Imprisonment ever in
flicted on a convicted prisoner in Bucks
ccunty-forty years in the Penitentiary.
Great interest was manifest In the trial
of Hogan, and sigh of relief will go up
from farmers all over the county now tina,
they know that this dangerous man Is put
safely away behind prison bars for the
rest Of his life.
HOGAN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED
When Court convened at 0 80 o'clock
Wednesday morning, the jury in the case
of the Com. vs.. John Hogan, tried on
Tuesday for arson In the burning of the
barn and grain stacks upon E. NJ. Slack s
farm and the barns upon Stephen Yerkes'
and Elizabeth I. Ely's farms, returned a
sealed verdict of guilty on all five bills OF
indictment.
When the reading of the verdicts upon
the several bills of indictment had been
completed, the Court proceeded to SEN
tence the prisoner.
When Judge Yerkes told Hogan to stand
up and asked him II he had anything to
say in mitigation of punishment before
sentence was passed upon him, the fire
dock.
In pronouncing sentence, Judge Yerkes
said the Court had no doubt Of the cor.
rectness of the jury's verdict. The pris-
oner was unquestionably guilty OF the
several acts OF arson of which he had been
convicted.
"You are a man Of most malicious dis
position, said the Court, 'and that you
burned property upon the slightest pro-
vocation is very evident. You are a man
of at least ordinary intelligence and are
fully aware of the seriousness OF your
crimes. You have reduced arson to a
science, and, probably through morbid
indifference or hardening, you are capable
| OF committing this crime at any time.
"rhe Court has now but one course to
| pursue, and that is to put you forever
where you can not do in the future what
you have been doing in the past-more
harm than your life is worth. You are a
much more dangerous criminal than a
murderer, for you do not put one life 10
danger, but you jeopardizc numbers by
| your heinous work."
The following sentence was then passed
| upon Hogan by the Court: For the burn
ing OF the barn OF Edward NJ. Slack, 800
fine and 10 years at hard labor and soli-
tary confinement in the Eastern Pcniten-
tiary; for the burning of Elizabeth &.
Ely's barn, 800 fine and 10 years In the
penitentiary; for burning Edward M.
Slack's grain stacks, $40 fiue and years
In the penitentary, and for burning Ed
ward M. Slack's hay stack, $40 fine and
years 10 the penitentiary. This made a
total of % years imprisonment.
| few minutes later Judge Yerkes stat
ed that he had ascertained that the Act OF
Assembly provided for Communication OF
over twelve years upon the sentence just
imposed, In the event OF the prisoner
good behavior while In the penitentiary
AS II was his intention that the citizens oil
the county shall not be liable to again SUI
fer the outrages of such criminal, the
Court said the sentence for the burning Of
the Slack grain and hay stacks would be
increased TO 10 years each, making an az
gregate imprisonment Of 40 years.
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