The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-16
The Boy Murderer Heard Sentence
With Sheer on His Face.
BOLD ROBBERY BY DAYLIGHT
Limbur.er Cheese, its Strength and Of
fensivcness Subject ofa Diatribc in
Court-Scand;,i Result of Il Euchrc
Party For Sweet Charity.

! otOSh, listened COOuy ana WITH u Slltti
upon his face yesterday when he learned
ne was sentenced TO serve twenty years
Imprisonment in Sing Sing. He was anx-
lous to leave the court room, apparently,
Tor the sole reason that while there he was
unable to munich on the candy that he had
in his pocket
Judge Fursmau heSitated TO say the
| words that would send to prison the boy in
! knlekenoocHers. From the bench he looked
| Gown at the little fellow, and then he
! bowed his head upon his hands and wept.
| When he was able to proceed his eyes
! were hiled with tears, and his voice was
/ broken Many persons, attracted by Curl
! oSlty to get glimpse of the boy murderer,
| We're also overcome and had to put their
| aandkerchiefs to their eyes.
| Acc Stewart, who is fourteen years
| ola, enjoys the odious distinction of being
/ the youngest prisoner ever transferred
| from the Tombs to Sing Sing. Only his
! youth saved him from the electric chair,
| after he had committed brutal and pre-
meditated murder He is SO thoroughly
| degenerate that those who have studied
him fear that there is no hope of reforIna-
| ton.
| Little Alexander looks less than ten
! years old, and there is nothing in his APP
| pearance to distinguish him from the ever
| age youngster of better repute He vas
taken into the criminal part of the SUI
preme Court in the morning 10y q big depu-
" sheriff, and he remained standing by
the railing in front of the bench until he
had heard his sentence.
He seemed quite Indifferent. as he had
been through his stay in the Tombs As
sistant District Attorney John f. NeIn-
tyre who had charge of the prosecution,
had asked him, Are you not sorry now
that you killed Edward Piesel?"
M willing TO serve my time" was the
sullen rel
His lawyer Edmund E. Price, stood by
him, and when the case was called said it
was not only the sa,Idest, but the most re-
| Gnarkabie incident he had ever known. and
that under the circumstances he had no
plea to make. He knew the murder rad
been done in cold blood and the only POS
| sible explanation would be insanity.
BOLD ROBBERY.
Prepared to kill if necessary to accom-
/ pdsh their purposes two desperate thieves
| entered Julius Reisner's jeweIrE store. at
| No. 56S Second Avenue, yesterday morning,
| overpowered the proprietor and stole So
| 600 worth of +swelry. Resner is in Belle
| vue Hospital badly battered, and tine police
| OF the East Thirty-fiith Street Station are
! looking for his assailants
| Reisner was alone in his little shop at
| half-past nine O'Clock, when two young
| well dressed men entered. They asked to
| inspect SyLIlG WATCH CISt!ilS III the SHOW
| case, and Reisner placed a tray fun of
| cheap ones before them. The younger Of
| the men selected one, and asked the jewel
| Ter to wrap it up. Reisner did so, and as
| he handed it TO the man his ccnrade drew
| blackjack" from his overcoat pocket
| ana struck the jeweller on the head with
! it. Reisner reeled and clutched at the
| counter. His assaiIant Then Kicked him
until he fell scmi-conscious to the floor.
| All this happened within a few seconds.
| and could have been seen from the street
had any one been there.
They then dragged Keisner into a back
| room, bound him hand and foot, locked
| the front door. and returned to the jewel
Ter. Closing the door into the store. so
| the men demanded the key to the safe.
! Reisner struggled to free his hands.
| Don't try that. or we will kick the life
out of YOU. exclaimed one of the thieves,
as he tied another knot in the rope.
As the jeweller continued to struggle.
they kicked him in the face and about the
body until he screamed for mercy. One OF
| the men then drew the Blackjack" and
! beat him over the head with it
Reisner says the men then searched him,
| taking what little money he had and
tearing diamond pin from his scarf They
| found the key to the safe in one of his
| pockets, and took it into the store, closing
| the door Behind them. There was $3.50 in
the safe. besides iewelry After taking
that they made selections from the stock
| III Uhe store. heisner says they then re-
| turned TO him. their pockets bullying with
| booty, and laughed al him when he asked
| them not to ruin him You ought to be
! glad We didn't knock your life OUT one of
tham replied.
LINBURGER CHEESE
Limburger cheese, its strength and often
te-iy- flsa
| diatribe delivered yesterday by Judge
| Hatch in the Appellate Division of the
| Supreme Court
Virginia Stuart Mackay-Snith. Robert
Stuart and Frederick D. Tappen. as trus-
tees under the win Of Ellen E. Ward for
the benefit Of William Cairns Stuart. had
| brought an Injunction against the firm n
! Crawford & Popper. wholesale dealers in
| butter and cheese, at No. Al West Seven
teenth Street, seeking to enjoin them
| from maintaining public nuisance there
| on the ground that tenants in the plain
| tiff's apartment houses at Nos. 413 and d.
West Seventeenth Street suffered from
| the ma!odorOus nature OF their business
| They commended that the cheese was more
than strong enough to move, and that its
failure TO do so caused the emigration oil
| their tenants.
In the Supreme Court application fol
| an injunction had been denied, and appeal
was taken, as the result OF which Judge
Mclaughlin in the Appellate Division yes.
terday handed down Il decision affirming
that of the lower court. The point al
issue was one of fact-whether the cheese
| was malHdOrouS.
| Inspectors of the Board of Health f1ad
testified that they did not find the odol
objectionable.
Judge Hatch handed down a dissenting
opinion. in which Judge Incratanl con.
ours. He says: The odcy- from Lfmbur.
ger cheese, when it is given a fair oppor.
tunity TO spread itself. is overwhelming.
and unless the oIfactory sense be eGa-
Gated TO the liking of OF, deadened to ii.
presence, it is about as offensive odor as
can greet the olfactory nerve of human
beings. That the premises are inhabitable
in its continued exposed presence will not
be generally believed, and when it is com.
bined with the Righteousness arising
from the cheese, we can readily see that
| a stencil can be produced BY the side Of
which the smell of hog pens and slaughter
houses might De regarded as delicate per
fumery-'
SCANDAL AT EUCHRE PARTY.
! Progressive euchre for sweet charfty's
sake at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday
concluded with a scene in which several