The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-02
qRANSGRESSORS WAY.
Judge Hudspeth Deals Out Sc
we're Doses of Justice
to Criminals.

Judge Hudspeth disposed of a number
OF prisoners On Thursday afternoon and
dealt out some severe doses of justice.
Thomas Basmange, the Armenian, who
was convicted about a year ago of at
tempting to shoe a young woman in
West Hoboken because she refused to
receive his attentions, was brought into
court on his own application. He was
sentenced to a year in the Penitentiary,
and after the expiration of his term he
was required to furnish bonds that he
would keep away from the young wom-
an n not annoy her any more. He
has served his term but has been UNI
able to get anyone to furnish the bonds
for him. He assured the Court, through
an interpreter, that he was very peni-
tent and promised that If, he was re-
leased he would not prosecute the young
woman. Judge Hudspeth accepted his
promise and released him.
Matthew Walsh, the tramp who broke
into In Erie Railroad car and stole a
bag of Numbered shirts, was sent to
the Penitentiary for nine months.
Bernard White and John Towner were
sentenced to two years in State Prison
and to pay a fine of $500 each and costs,
the extreme penalty for the crime of
which they pleaded guilty. They are
the ruf1ians who dragged an cid woman
into the cabin of a canal boat in the
South cove and kept her there all night.
This is the case in which a Central
Railroad brakeman, a veryu respectable
man, was arrested and positively iden-
titled by the woman as her assailant.
One of the associates of the prisoners
who knew the facts became conscience
stricken and .tsquealed' on them, thus
rescuing the brakeman from a very dan
gerous dilemma. White and Towner
Joined a mission after committing the
crime and protested to be converted. The
mission people were deceived, and APP
pealed to Judge HudSpeth for clemency;
but the Judge was not to be fooled.
He said he had no faith in their pro-
fessed reformation n expressed his
regret that the law did not permit him
to infict a more severe penalty.
Carrie Stevens. the old FOUNDER, who
stabbed Policeman Loddick With a hair
fron Wyatt at the Oakland avenue sta
ton, was sent 10 the County jail for six
ty days.
Charles Johnson. who was convicted of
forging by altering a certificate of ten
shares of stock of the Hudson Telephone
Company to twenty shares. was sentenced
Flood was sent to the Penitentsary for
Pearson and John Kenny win spend SIX
ty days in the same institution for grand
larceny, Raffo carponi. The West Hobo-
and claimed that he had a right to pun
ish her for disobedience, was sent TO the
Penitentiary for three months.
Judson D.. Smith, the man who stole
Or. Baumann,s horse and buggy and
State Prison for eighteen months.
John Conniff was sent to State Prison
for one year for beating his father and
mother. He served a term not long ago
for beating his mother and sister.
Joseph Rieney, who pleaded guilty of
su~tteringSand passing a forged check, was
sent to State Prison for a year and a
half.
Thomas Colacundo got three months In
the Penitentiary for breaking, entering
and larceny,
Timothy Lynch and Joseph Powers. the
toughs who held up. a young girl and at
tempted to assault her, were sent to the
P~enitentiary for a year. Thomas Rein
hard, a colored man, got a similar term
in the same Institution for shooting at
William Swayles, another colpred man.
Thomas No0nan was sent to the Peniten-
tiary for six months for throwing hot
water on his wife.