The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-15
No Bond Granted.

After sentence had been pronounced,
Judge Steele, for Briggs, asked thee court
to fix a reasonable bond pending the MAX
ing Of an appeal to the supreme court and
asked for a stay of proceedings. The court
refused to fix such a bond. but granted a
stay of execution for fifteen days, in
which time the defendant will be required
to perfect his appeal.
Mrs. Schf1Iing's Case.
The court evidently had some little SYM
pathy with Mrs. Bertha Schilling, the
Columbia theater actress who was con-
victed for the murder of Hazel Murphy.
Mrs. Schilling was almost hysterical
throughout the ordeal, and cried almost
continuously while standing before the
bar of judgment. She. gave her age as
%, and said that she had been an actress
for the past six years. She had never be-
fore been convicted of crime, and was
not addicted to the use of Intoxicating
liquors. She declared that she was not
deserving of punishment, as she had not
committed the crime for which she had
been convicted. Attorney Donahue
pleaded for mercy, alleging in extenua-
! tion the surroundings in which the woman
had been compelled to live. He asked
the imposition of jail sentence, and re-
ferred to the Flagler case at Washington
as parallel, when a sentence of one
hour in Jail and fine of $500 was i'm
posed.
The court said that in a homicide case
it had no right to impose jail sentence.
Shot for SOdinl.
''If the court could impose the maximum
for this offense upon the person or per-
sons responsible for the existence Of the
dive in which this occurred" said Judge
MCGEE, 1T would do so most gladly and
willingly
Two years and a half at hard labor IN
the penitentiary at Saltwater was then
pronounced as the sentence, fully as light
as could have been expected.
A Touching Scene.
The scene was touching when Belle
Hoban was called to receive sentence for
larceny in the second degree, having
pleaded guilty after being caught in the
act of shoplifting The woman sobbed
continuously almost from the time she
entered the court until led away by the
matron. She gave her age as 26 and said
that she was born at Yankton, S. D.
Three years ago she had married BILLY
Hoban, whose occupation she gave as a
gambler and general CRATER" In a
| choking voice and with downcast head she
pleaded with the Judge to be lenient, say
| ing that she felt the disgrace keenly.
Questioned by the court, she admitted
that she knew Mrs. Sickles, with whom
she had been once arrested in st. Paul
| charged with shoplifting. She knew Mrs.
! Sickles as a shoplifter, but her own arrest
at that time was simply because she was
found in company with the Sickles wom-
an. The case against her had been dis
missed. Attorney Stratton then ap-
peared In behalf of the prisoner and ex-
hibited letters from Corner Assistant
| County Attorney Zollman, ex-Chief of Po-
! lice Goss and Grier M. Orr, judge OF the
| municipal court, all of st. Paul, speaking
good words for the prisoner. The letter
| from the chief of police gave the Hoban
woman a clear record and this gave Judge
| MCGEE a handle for criticism. Picking up
! from his desk picture of the prisoner,
| the Judge said
| Before the chief wrote such a letter,
| he should have had the grace to have re-
moved this photograph from his rogue's
gallery and to have erased this woman S
record, given as professional shoplifter. .
Strange Facts.
| There have been strange facts in con-
| nection with this case,'' continued the
court. Strong influence has been brought
| to save the prisoner from punishment,
Mr.. Munzer one of the complaining wit
nesses, has told me that he had been Of
| fered $500 if he would drop the case. The
county attorneys Office also informs me