The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-25
CHANGE TO REPENT
JUDGE WILLIS SENTENCES NUM-
BIER OF MEN WHO CON-
FESSED
TO VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW.
REBUKES A GALLERY AUDIENCE
THAT LAUGHED AT THE
COURTS REMARK.
HosHAw SENT TO woRKHoUsE.
George Van Auken Sent to the st.
Cloud Reformatory-DispO
of Other Cases.

The loud laugh that speaks the
vacant mind" was rebuked by Judge
Willis yesterday. 1t happened in the
forenoon in the criminal court room.
Judge Willis was sentencing Charles
Hoshaw, a lad Of eighteen, who had
confessed to taking property that
didn't belong to him. There were ex-
tenuating circumstances in the case,
among them the efforts Of the boys
father to aid the prosecution. In pro-
nouncing the sentence the court ex-
ercised its discretion on the side Of
leniency.
II will send you," said Judge Willis,
"out to the workhouse, where you will
be placed under the care of John Fitz-
gerald and Mr.. Keller. They are ex-
cellent men and worthy of their posi-
tons as reformers."
The gallery laughed audibly. There
is always a gallery audience in the
criminal court
Judge Willis fairly froze the laugh
on the faces Of the gallery people,
when in reproof of their levity he said:
Now, every one who laughed just
now, set himself down as a fool. Those
who laughed loudest made them
selves more conspicuous as being the
biggest fools. Their conduct is border
ing on absolute imbecility. 1 want to
say that there are no better men in
the country for their line Of work
than Mr.. Fitzgerald and Mr.. Keller"
The cases Of the state against Keefe,
Burns and Bell, who are charged with
subornation Of perjury and perjury,
were continued until the February
term by consent Of counsel.
George Van Auken, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of forgery in the
second degree, got off with a reform
twenty-four years of age. He mar
rted young. One morning he found a
blank check with genuine signature
Van Auken filled it in for $500.
He might have added another
cipher" whispered an old habitue Of
the court to his neighbor.
Judge Willis sentenced Van Auken
to the reformatory at st. Cloud.
Joseph LIE Clair, a young man Of
tWenty-seven, pleaded guilty of forgery
In the second degree Judge Willis as
signed Mr.. LIE Clair to the reformatory
Otto Mack, the German who plead
ed guilty to the charge of negotiating a
forged check, excited much sympathy.
The muscles of his face twitched con-
Vulsively as he faced the court How
he ever negotiated a bogus check and
got away with the coin, nobody could
imagine. He had been a cashier and a
bookkeeper. That was all be had to say
in his defense. City Physician Ancker
testified that in his opinion Mack was
not mentally responsible. The court
took the case under Amusement and
Mack was remanded to the county jail.
His mind is now on probation.
G. D. Winfree, thirty-two years of
age, confessed that he ran short Of
money, and negotiated some bogus
checks to replenish his eXchequer. Mr..
reformatory plan.
w. G. Schmidt confessed that he
worked off checks without a suspicion
OF a bank account to meet them, mere
ly to oblige a lady friend. Mr.. Schmidt
will repent at st. Cloud.
Frank Creighton went to Saltwater
on the reformatory plan for grand lar
ceny in the second degree.
A. P. Godfrey, once a private In the
Smelling, was sentenced to the Still
water prison for two years. Mr.. God
frey's record heightened his sentence
On motion of County Attorney Ander-
son the case against r. S. Wallace, the
absconding stamp clerk of Farwell
OZmun, Kirke & Co, was dismissed
Mr.. Anderson said the young man was
how under arrest by the government
at Denver, and would not be brought
back to st. Paul. III addition to this
Mr.. Anderson said he would not con-
sent to try the case anyhow, because
he had been informed that, at the
time an indictment was pending, an
attorney had gone to the firm with a
check for 81 ,000 This check was to be
cashed by the firm, in case no indict-
ment was brought. In case the grand
jury returned an Indictment, the money
was to be returned. The Indictment was
brought, and the check returned II
view Of a settlement Of this kind, the
county attorney said he for one would
not attempt to convict Wallace. The
case was, therefore, nolled.