The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-02-02

Evidently the Eastern penitentlary is
not such a bad sort of a place after
all Monday, a convicted thle1 craVeu
and was granted the privilege OF BENG
sent there rather than to the county
jail, and yesterday two other cuipti,S
begged and secured the same IrlNl-
lere although the preference cost them
an additional three months 1mprlson-
ment. ,,,
These latter two were John Will
li.ms and Miles Stacey who with
James Daley. were indicted for the rel
TON burglary. They were shown TO
have been guilty of nothing more than
sharing in the plunder, and after karl
and Reilly. who plead guilty of the
actual burglary had been sentenced
to two years and three months each
in the penitentiary, they were called
I'M and given one year apiece In the
county jail
They were taken back TO the prison
,rs' pen but were there only snort
time when Williams and stacey sent
word to Judge Edwards that they
vould like 10 he sent to the peniten-
tiary If it was all the same TO the
court.
Judge Edwards called them up again
and asked them what theic reasons
wore for preferring the penitentiary.
'rhey made answer that in the penl-
tcntiary they would be put to WORK
and this would give them exercise ana
also make the time pass more qulckiy'
THEIR REQUEST GRANTED.
Judge Edwards thought the reasons
cominendahle ana granted their re-
quest. He locked On an extra three
months SO that their term would enu
i'm the summer time, it not being DEEM
ed advisable to discharge prisoners
from Z long confinement during cold
weather Daley was satisfied to take
chances on the county Jail.
The story of the burglary as it de-
yeloDed in the trial was that Kelly
and Kari with pal whom they met
here in Scranton and who was KNOWN
to them only by the name of DICK
committed the burglary, and after
sharing the booty started back to New
York state Dick became separated
from the other two and nothing has
heen heard from him since. Daley fell
in with them at the Windsor after the
deed was committed and accepted
some of the booty with the understand
ing that he was to turn it into cash
and divide with the others. stacey
and Williams fell in with the burglars
on the road some days after the steal
ing was done. They, like Daley, took
come Of the booty for the purpose OF
selling It, All i've of the gang told the
same story and it was not denied 10
any extent by the commonwealth, ex-
cept as TO the claim of the defendants
that they did not admit the goods
were stolen. The jury did not accept
this part of the story as was evidence
ed by their verdict of guilty or re-
ceiving stolen goods" Attorney John
NJ. Harris was assigned to defend the
trio.
CARBONDALE DEPOT THIEVES.
Another thieving case, in which the
circumstances Of the trial were quite
similar to the above. was that of the
Carbondale depot robbery, for which
Arthur Young, of this city. and James
T.. Loughney. of Carbondale, We're ar
raigned during the afternoon.
Young plead guilty and tried TO ac-
quit his pal. He says tHat on the day
of the robbery, Dec. Is last, he went to
Carbondale to visit Lougpney. On his
way to Loughney's house lie entered
the Seventh avenue station df the
Delaware and Hudson Canal company
to get a drink of water.
The agent had gone out on an errand
and Young, noticing that there was
no one in the ticket office, climbed over
and helped himself to the n )ney that
was in the till. The ageu. says SES go
was taken, but Young maintains that
he took only S12. He then went to
LOughney's house ana took him with
him to Scranton. where they had q
good time with the money. They were
both arrested later by Constable
Michael Moran and when arraigned be-
fore Alderman S. S. Jones. Young plead
guilty. Chief of Police McAndreW and
Detective Martin Crippen sWore that
Loughney admitted to them that he
knew the money was stolen. but Lough-
ney denied this and both he and YOUNG
testified that he did not know of the
robbery until their arrest.
The jury found Loughney guilty of
receiving stolen goods and he was SEN
fenced to five months in the county
Jail. There was charge Of keepinr
tippling house standing against him
and to this he plead guilty. He was
given another three months for this
otfense, the term to commence at the
expiration of the previous sentence.
Daniel Heinzman and Mary Zeigler
lived in adjoining apartments in a tone
ment in the Eleventh ward, last sum-
mer, They had a falling out and yes
terday Heinzman prosecuted Mrs. Yeig-
Ter for assault and battery, and she
charged him with surety of the peace
The jury said not guilty in the assault
and battery case and put the costs en-
the county. The proceedings in the
surety case were dismissed by crdel
of Judge Edwards.
general laugh was enjoyed wher