The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-02
JUDGMENT DAY
Judge Blair Inaicts Punish
ment Upon Many Trans
gressors of the Law.

Yesterday was judgment Gay II liiS
Court of Quarter Sessions, and nineteen
offenders against the majesty of the law
| were arraigned for sentence. Some re-
ceived- long terms, but many escaped
| lightly, considering the character OF their
| offences.
The longest term imposed was five years
in State Prison, which penalty was meteu
out to William Lambkin, the New YORK
crook who, on April last, with another
man, held up Edward Smith, of No. 4s
Union street, and robbed him OF MS
watch When arrested later at the ferry,
as he was about to go to New YORK, q
steel bar wrapped in a newspaper was
found in Lambkin's possession
John H. Bailey, colored man, whose
picture is in the rogues gallery as a.
pickpocket was sent to the same institute
tion for similar term for confiscating
watch belonging to Thomas Connors, Of
this city.
Richard and Paul Schulz, who were
members of the gang who, on April lbs
stole five chests of tools belonging TO
Adolph Koeblen, of No. q James avenue
and hid them in a cave near the old Mar
ion brewery, were each sentenced to three
years in State Prison. They We're clever
Fly captured by Detective Michael Clark
and PatroIman Brainard, of the Oakland
avenue police station.
John Mclaughlin, the Bayonne man
who several months ago was acquitted
of charge of robbing young Filipino
sailor, was arraigned for sentence for
holding up and taking $2S from John Nc
Henry, who lived in the same house with
him and who Mclaughlin was taking
home intoxicated on the night of March
10 last Mclaughlin will spend the next
three years in States Prison.
William Harden ad Charles Miller who
were caught in the act of robbing the
till of John f. G. Meyers saloon at No.
200 River street. Hoboken, while the bar
tender was asleep, at three o'clock on.
the morning of April last, were each
sentenced to eighteen months in the
penitentiary.
Charles Bronson. who got s57.76 by pad
ding the payrolls of the New Jersey Tube
Company by whom he was employed,
was sent to Snake Hill for similar term,
The same penalty was imposed on John
Malinowski. the Pole who passed a Con-
federate States s1eo bill on a Henderson
street saloonkeeper.
James Kirby, seventeen years of age,
and Clarence Southard, eighteen, who,
while on parole, on March q last broke
into freight car of the Erie Railroad,
lying in the West End yard, and stole
seventeene silk skirts valued at So were
each sent to the Snake Hill penitentiary
for one year.
James Madigan. an Old man, who plead
of otf mi tpr
money under false pretences, was sem
fenced to the county jail for thirty days
on each charge. Madigan's plan of oper-
alton was to solicit advertisements for a
newspaper and collect an advance deposit
on the same.
William Burkett, the Hoboken man who
was arrested on complaint of Poormaster
Barck and indicted for atrociously as
saulting his stepson with a stove litter,
was fined $25 and costs of court and placed
in custody of the probation officer. The
courts leniency was induced by the fact
that representations were made to the
effect that Burkett was a good provider
for his family and that the act for which
he was indicted had been committed in
fit of ungov K.able temper.
Thomas Mooney, driver for Express
man William Patterson of No. 924 Wash
ington street, Hoboken, was let go under
a suspension of sentence in charge of the
probation officer. On March 20. Mooney,
while drunk, took horse and surrey be-
longing to his employer to New York,
where he sold the rig for $40. Mr.. Pat
terson interceded for him and promised
to take him back in his employ
w. H. Connolly on March p, last, took
1900 cigars from August Newman's cigar.
factory, at No. 124 South street. Proba-
ton Officer Higgins satisfied the court
that the accused was at times mentally
irresponsible for his act and Connolly was
paroled in his custody.
Charles Bowman, a boy charged with
ployed, James Scanlan, of No. S7s Third
street was released under suspension of
sentence The lad said he lost the money
which was given him to buy stock, and
the Court learned that Scanlan's son had
beaten Bowman over the head with an
iron bar Scanlan did not want to press
the complaint.
William McSoppin got drunk on March
26 last and with some other men broke
into shed and stole some brass lamps.
Sentence in his case was suspended
Frank Callahan and John Kline, who
were convicted of robbing the till In the
gomery street of 81. were released under
a suspension of sentence.
A similar disposition was made of the
case of John Creighton. a Bayonne
youth who watched outside while some
companions broke into a grocery store.