The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04

ages if they don't mind. Here is d special
solder that l made out Of lead, tin and bis
muth, an invention of my own, and ii is
very precious to me. and here they have
got the last l have except little strip IN
my valise
The Court-Now, that looks to me as if it
had been in the shape of a dollar, and had
been then hammered out?
The Prisoner don't care what it looks
to you like. / know that / made the stun,
and then took a piece of railroad iron and
hammered it up. That is too precious. my
friend, TO use for that purpose. That Is
composed of lead, tin and bismuth, one part
each.
After owens gave his testimony Crow re-
marked:
Il will say in regard to Owens's testi-
mony, it has been all nodded to suit the cir
cumstances, just as If you would take some
plaster of paris and make mold, and mold
it to suit the circumstances"
The Court-What have you to say about
those twenty dollars that Mr.. Owens testi-
fled you offered to sell him after you had
sold him the six dollars?
Mr.. Crow-That is all poppy-cock that
whole business. There is nothing else in it.
my friend. 1t is very easy to say anything
of that kind, and the idea that Sheriff
Walsh gave him the first instructions to
get counterfeit money from me is all bosh
because he talked to me before he ever saw
him.
The Court suppose Mr.. Owens is the
only man that dared approach you on the
subject of counterfeit money, is he?
Mr. Crow-He is the only man that came
out so plain. Other men have. LOOT ,,,u,,
The Court-You have found great many
of that class of people?
Mr. Crow-Yes your Honor, / have.
The, Court-Did 1t ever occur to you as
singular that they would apply to you!
Mr. CroW-No, it didn't occur to me as
anything singular. There is one man IN
Orleans that approached me about as PLAIN
as owens did, and | gave him a pretty de-
cided answer. He had sense enough 10
quit but Owens didn't; he kept on.
THE JUDGES REMARKS.
The Court-Mr. Crow, think that your
case verifies what is the general belief of
those who are experienced in dealing with
men who go into the counterfeiting bust
ness, and what is in accord with my own
observation, and that is, where man gets
into the business of manufacturing coun-
terfeit money there is very little hope OF his
ultimate reformation.
The Prisoner-I am reformed, perfectly.
The Court-They serve term after term in
state prison promising that they WIN re-
form ard do better, but the temptation to
go into the manufacturing of counterfeit
money, especially when they stand in need
of a little change, seems to be overpoWer-
years since you got out of prison, and you
claim that you haven't been in the counter
felt business
Mr.. Crow-Yes, 1 claim it, and claim the
truth.
The CORTLAND yet the testimony of Mr..
Owens, coupled with your own confession,
made under the advice of counsel, satisfies
me that where a man lays in a wholesale
supply as you evidently did, of the raw
material for the purpose of making coun-
terfeit money, the court can hardly believe
that in tinkering clocks and in cleaning
watches you would need so much of the
metal as there is there. The blocks of metal
are altogether too large. 1t is matter or
surprise to me that so good a man as you
profess to be should be so incredulous of the
testimony of respectable men when they
testify under oath. ] believe what Mr..
Owens said, believe what the sheriff said,
and l am more disposed to believe 1T from
seeing the incipient steps, imbedded there
in that piece of metal, of an attempt to
make that counterfeit dollar. l haven't a
counterfeit money, and haven't any doubt
that the amount you manufactured was
larger than the $l2 that Mr.. owen says you
first showed him, of which you gave him 80;
with the 500 that you afterwards showed
him and offered to sell him for So, that
would make $32. The amount of the raw
material leads me to believe that you in
tended to engage in the business, and did
engage in it a pursuit.
Now, you were over fifty years of age
when you were sent to prison before You
have reached time of life when If a man
ever has any sense of honesty he has it
then If a man hasn't any SeESe of honesty
and morality by the time he reaches the
age of fifty, his case is hopeless. There is
not much chance of reforming an old GRIM
inal L think that the best thing for you,
YOU a considerably longer sentence than
the Judge gave you some seven or eight
years ago; and the sentence of the court
is that you be imprisoned at hard labor in
the penitentiary at Columbus, o., Tor a
period of five years.