The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-22
NINE YEARS IN THE PEN
Punishment Melted Out to Joe
Sullivan.
TEN YEARS is THE LIMIT
The Young Hiehwayboy Who Tried TO
Hold Up the North Star Saloon
Sentenced by Judge Brantiy
Yesterday.

A grief-stricken mother. with yelled
face and bowed head. listening to the
awful judicial words that consigned her
beloved son to the shame of a long
term In a felon's cell. was a spectacle
that touched the heart of every man In
Judge Brantly's crowded court room
yesterday morning. IL was the occa-
sion of the sentencing Of young Joe Sui
Ivan for his share in the attempted
hold-up of the North Star addition sa-
loon, In which the would-be highway
boy narrowly escaped killing Joe Gang
ner.
Joe Sullivan does not look like a bad
youth. nor yet like a tough youth. He
has a pleasant. oun face. st~raightfor-
ward eyes and a curly head. He Is n
years of age. but doesn't look a day
older than IS. AS he sat by his sad
mother waiting to be called to the bar
more than one of the crowd OF specta-
tors must have wondered what fiend
crept into the boys MIND prompted
him to his ~foolhardy act.
Joe bore up pretty well when he was
finally called. but there was a roubled
look on his face that showed a sore
Brantly. ION Nov. is. five days ago.
there was filed in this court an inform
alton charging you and one Clark with.
on Nov. 10. In Deer Lodge county, will
fully. wrongfully and f~eloniously max
ing an assault or Joseph Gangner. with
intent to Kill. You were brought into
court, counsel was appointed. and to
the information filed you pleaded gull
ty. Have you anything to say?"
Joe had nothing to say. but Attorney
Casey, who stood beside him. had, and
he said IL well. He told Of the boys
parents and what they are suffering;
how Joe had been a Woodworking boy
ever since he was IA years of age: how
he had never before carried firearms,
and had only had one fault-a liking
for drink: how he had started for his
work the night before the hold-up, had
got drunk and lost his head; how Clark
had tempted him, and how he had
pleaded guilty to the crime. Then Mr..
Casey pleaded hard for leniency.
"Who had the gum" asked Judge
Brantly. abruptly. when the plea was
ended.
1--WE both had guns" responded Joe,
not a little bit like "a bad man."
Who did the shooting?"
81 did"
what forg"
"They were Clark's Instructions"
What did you go to the saloon forg'
Money"
How old Is Clarke"
"Twenty-four years."
How old are your"
"Twenty-one years"
Joe said that Clark INSTRUCTED him
that IL Gangner didn't give up the mon
ey when demanded to shoot on one side
to make Gangner think they meant
business. Joe hot three times. the first
two ION one side" but he didn't know
abou the last one. II couldn't open
the door-maybe 1 wasn't strong
enough"
Where is Clark now?"
I've no idea where he is"
Judge Brantly then administered a
very severe lecture to the young man,
who listened with eyes cast down. His
honor called attention to the fact that
another young man had attempted the
same feat not three doors from tn,
court house. and that of the dozen oil
more similar hold-ups that young mar
and Joe were the only perpetrators whs
had been caught. unnos that bulle
had struck between the ribs instead Of
on top of one. In that case II would
be a question of hanging for Joe in
stead of the penitentiary. The court
did not believe that drunkenness wa,
any excuse for crime. but In view of tn,
e~xtenuating circumstances in Sullivan,
v he would give him the benefit 81
them. He would pronounce the sen
tence In such a shape that II Sullivan
showed that he was entitled to a par
don he would be apt TO get II. II not
he would be incarcerated long enough
to be suitably punished. Min years II
the penitentiary was what Joe got. H
might have got ten.
Joe passed through the crowd will
bowed head His poor mother followed
a shor distance behind. Her head wa
bowed lower.