The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-05
Il[R N JAIL FOR BROOKS.
...~x CLERK PLEADS GUILTY. 10
uuEzxLEMExT CHARGE.
r4 Hears Plea for Mercy ena In.
xnee . Light SenteDee-Allegea
vsestn 81 = Wonan's Wiles yveeps
.-an Affecting Courtrooa seene.

| wHi !. Brooks, the bank clerk. Tho
$500 snas wine and a fast woman led
-. into crime, yesterday afternoon plead
q ruI,,y 10 sznbezziemen: IN the superior
- And vas sentenced by Judge Jacobs
:. re year IN tae county jail. The young
- received tae sentence with consider
-. Eence and wspt silently. His aged
s,ys<r broke down completely. and AZ the
Ssas Ct his tears many spectators ia the
- .oon were visinly affected. II was
- neoss fearful scene the court room has
-ltressec fer many months.
xssoxney Boyd J. Taiim1E. an Ole friend
q nc Brooks family, p.eaded earnestly for
. srht sentence. He told TIE court how
= sas kEown the defendant for eleven
-saru and had lived In the family with him
"a tea He bad Always known him as .
q az excellent habits. He had always
I'D hin al home az evenings with his
ssashey. reading good books and conduct
- esnself In every way as model youth.
YeJns Brooks lad never been, said Afr.
9ajln.aI., a boy wno associated with bad
~0rsE,. In fact. had never evinaed any at
t.eAnent toward any woman until the un-
Eeky dag when Ee IiTst met the woman
1ho led bin 20 ruin Young Brooks had
ses her, ar Talimsn said. at the National
6snk Of Commerce. where he worked, and
abess the woman kept a bank account
F,eu that day the young man was chang
a virtually hesisched, and when his sal
vfps flowers etc, he stole FOR her the
uonsy OF his employers
Besides pleading for short sentence. Mr.
ralIn1an hesaugnt the court 10 allow the
sertenee to be served IN the county jail
lefing bow the young man had been raised
= WsiiA Wa4ls. and could never endure
Tie aisSrAce Of serving term in the peni-
tertisry III the town where the friends and
teava.Gianees of his boy hood still! resided
There WAS no sentiment In Prosecuting
Attorney McEroy's answer to Mr.. Tall
nana affecting plea He told the court
nat there we're circumstances In the case
uhica, In his opinion. would justify sem
fencing the prisoner 10 the penitentiary.
hut that II the court was inclined TO make
The panisanent confinement In the county
hE b would ask that the maximum term
Z -one ycar-be imposed.
In passing sentence Judge Jacobs, with,
eoHsidarabls emotion. remarked that one
OF the most d!sagreeahle features of the
tisagrseable duty he was about to perform
was that the punishment. In the very ma
tufs Of things. was bound to fall far more
severely upon the unfortunate father and
mother OK tire defendant than upon the de-
lsndans himself. The object Of imprison-
msns was not so much 10 punish IA To re-
farm. Continuing he said:
This court has adopted rule for which
Il has been criticised at times. but that
does no. affec, the judgment of the court
Is to the correctness of that rule. That
rule ie to give young man a mild sem
teace. especially II II IL his first offense
z Inc court Is Always ANXIOUS that the
Ieer OF a young man shall be that of a
hr-abiding citizen and with the intent
that the punishment VIII have the desired
eject upon you. the court Is going TO be
Just as ienient as possible under the facts
Of your case. You will be sentenced to
The county jail OK this county for one year.
That IL all"
Brooks was then led down stairs 10 his
cell again. lie has, &. is said, made strong
promises or reform. With that end in
view he has requested his parents to visit
him daily and give him moral support dur
Ing his confinement.
The Information. which was not filed un-
Oil the prisoner was brought into court,
charged Brooks with the emhezz,ement Of
Sso9- The punishment prescribed for the
crime Is Imprisonment In the county jail
for any terra not exceeding one year, or
imprisonment IN the penitentary for any
fefm not less than ore year and not ex-
ceedng ten.
Some question has been raised as 10
whether Brooks, not having been serstenc-
90 TO the pentenuary, Will become felon
ard lose his civil rights Deputy Prosecu-
ting Attorney John Il. Hart says that he
VII. emoezziement being felony.