The San Francisco call., 1899-02-11
MRS, ALLISON
AND Balm SENT
TO SAN QUENTIN
Given Fifteen Months
and $1,000 Fine.
BAIL MONEY WAS ATTACHED
THE WOMAN CALLED THE COURT
A VILE NAME.
nesnera+a A+ten1nt of Her Attorney
BAIL MONEY WAS ATTACHED
CALLED THE COURT
A VILE NAME.
Desperate Attempt of Her Attorney
to Obtain a New Trial of the
Case Was Quite
Useless.

LAWYER T. ]. Crowley made strong
nIea for mercy yesterday in United States
District Judge de Haven's court when his
clients. Mrs. Grace Allison, alias Quinn,
alias Collins, alias Smith, and /. w. Batn,
alias H. c. Curtis, the brace of matr1mo-
NAL bureau sharpers, appeared before the
court for sentence on the charge of using
the United States mails for the purpose of
defrauding old bachelors in quest Of
wives. Mr.. Crowley moved for an arrest
of Judgment, then for new trial, Doth
of which motions were denied Then, In
mitigation of punishment, he placed N.
C. Collins, the putative husband of the
successfully seductive woman, on the
stand and proved by Mr.. Collins that he
intended to take his bride to Midway,
KY. to reside and that they were mar
ried last December in Jeffersonville, Ind.
He said that his "wife" was in bad
health; that she believed herself to be in
a delicate condition and that the air Of
a prison would not agree with her.
Then the lady told the court how she
had been suffering from nervous prostra-
ton: how her eyes troubled her at times
so that she had to wear goggles and re-
main in a dark room for three days at a
time, but the Judge evidently considering
that there were plenty of dark rooms at
the ladys disposal in San Quentin peni-
tentiary brushed these pleas aside and
proceeded to pass sentence.
He began by saying that the duty OF
pronouncing judgment upon criminal
was most delicate The court must take
into consideration what is just to the pub
lie and the degree of punishment to be
inflicted The case had been carefully
tried-in fact, he could not recall case
in which he had sat as Judge that had
been more completely presented than the
present one. The counsel for the defend
ants had made the most OF 1t, and the
court was fully persuaded that were 1T
not for the fact that the evidence OF the
guilt of the defendants was simply over
whelming a different verdict would have
been rendered.
He regarded the offense for which the
defendants were tried as very grave.
There are many crimes where the defend
ant may urge in eXtenuatiCn that the
crime was committed in the heat of pas
sion or under the stress of some great
temptation, but the offense of which the
defendants had been convicted was not or
that kind. 1t must have been deliberately
planned, an1 in order to be successful
they must be able to meet with men of
more than ordinary credulity.
The court then sentenced both defend
ants to be imprisoned for fifteen months
in the penitentiary at San Quentin, and
each to pay a fine of $500.
Mrs. Allison received the sentence with
a sneering smile, and turning TO Collins,
who was sitting by her side, muttered,
who heard the remark were more than
ever convinced that she was real
'loidy.'
The defendants had put up $4,000 cash
bail and this sum will be levied upon for
the payment of the $1,000 fine. Bert Schles-
niger, on behalf of DR.. Allison of Temple,
Tex, has also attached the bail money
in the suit of DR.. Allison against his
namesake to recover the value of the dia-
monds and other presents given to her by
him as engagement tokens.
Mr.. Crowley obtained stay of pro-
ceedings for ten DAYS.