The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-22
SAM PARKS FOUND GUILTY.
.HvBY OUT FOUR HOURS-HE'LL
Ry SENTENCED ON MONDAY.
Ills Friends surprised by the Verdict
-Wranslc over the DAY OF Sentence
Delegate DOlan. the Chief witness
of the bay, Denies MIR. Plenty'S story.

Walking Delegate Sam r. Parks of the
Housesiniths and Bridgemen's Union was
found guilty in Recorder COTS Court of
General Sessions last night. OF extorting
1900 on Dec 10, 1902, from Josephus Plenty
NJ Jersey City The verdict was announced
in court at 1920 o'clock. Sentence was
ss for ii o'clock on Monday morning.
The court room was filled with Parks's
own friends but his bondsman Big Bill
peverv. Devcry's Assemblyman Butler,
who has been Il constant attendant and
Bernard Lynch, the saloonkeeper who got
the Plenty check cashed were not there.
parkss friends were stunned by the blow.
They were confident that he would be ac-
qui'ted
Thp Jury came into court at ll:l5 o'clock,
and Parks was at once brought in in charge
Of two turkeys. He slouched with long
strides up to the rail where his lawyers sat.
leaned his elbows on il and bent his tall,
meag"c frame over it,
Even when he heard Foreman John s.
Kcnaue of the jury answer Guilty. az
charged, Parks showed no emotion.
Il demand that the jury he poled, said
LAWYER A. c. Eustace, sharply, The Re-
corder directed that it be- done, and every
Juror answered yes to his name.
Parks and his lawyer conferred for a
minute or two Then when Clerk Penny
started TO take the prisoners pedigree the
court room was surprised to hear Mr..
Eustace answer each question with Under
The advice of counsel he refuses to answer !"
When the clerk had finished the Recorder
asked if sentence should be pronounced at
once
I'VE will take the statutory forty-eight
hours, said Mr.. Eustace.
Il move that sentence be postponed for
Two wesks. said Assistant District Attorney
Rand There are three other indict-
rnents for eXtortion against Parks that
must be disposed Of
Mr. Eustace objected to the delay and
Rand asked that Parks be remanded until
Sept. 8.
Il shall not be sitting during the Sep
TENDER term" said tie Recorder
Then l will move postponement until
the first court day l., October said Mr.
Rand. -In view of the dilatory tactics of
this mans lawyers it is not likely that he
can be brought to trial before that time
The Recorder stopped further wranglin 6
hy the lawyers by announcing
Il will set sentence for Monday mornin &
at II O'clock" said he The District At
torney may then bring forward any reasons
he has for postponement
I'm be ready said Mr.. Rand.
"The prisoner is remanded.' said the
Recorder.
Parks got up from his leaning position
on the rail and went through the PASSAGE
way around the side of the courtroom
leading to the Tonbs, AS he turned his
back to the Court he smiled family and as
he reached the back of the courtroom
he turned his head toward his friends and
winked. Then Just as he was about To
disappear through the door of the passage
to the Bridge of Signs he waved his hat
TO them. A moment later the door closed
behind him and his lawyers abruptly walked
ont of court.
The punishment for extortion is i'm
prsonment for not more than five years.
Assistant District Attorney Rand said that
if Parks was put on trial on any of the other
indictments it would be in the Criminal
DfdACn OF lle oupTeile SOuTt.
John DolGn. the Jersey City walking
delegate, WAS the chief witness called by
Parks's lawyer yesterday. Dolan swore
that he was not in Lynch Bros saloon
at Fifty-third street and Third avenue
between noon and o'clock on Dec. 10.
The only other persons who testified we're
Clet to back up this abb. They swore to
having seen Dolan in New Jersey before 4
o'clock in the afternoon and after in the
evening.
In summing up for the defence Lawyer
Robinson made statements to the jury
which led Mr.. Rand to tell the Recorder
that they were at variance with the testi-
mony or else we're entirely out siCe of it.
Mr. Robinson then crit iciscd what he called
the antics of litter of kit tens in the nursery
attached to the District Attorneys office"
The Recorder told Mr. Rand that he must
not interrupt even if Mr. Robinson's state
m"nls contradicted the testimony or
brought in outside matters.
Mr., Robinson told the jurors that this
was "A newspaper prosecution and that
every possible influence had been used
upon the jurors. He quoted Plenty as
saying that Parks hauled from his pocket
a roll containing thirty $500 bills. Mr.
Robinson declared that this statement
was Inherently improbable.
Nj Rand Interrupted 10 say that Plenty
had only said that it was a roll with
$500 bill on the outside. Col. Robinson then
made his reference to the litter of kit
tens, and went on to say that on Dec, 10
Parks was under the espionage "of associa-
lions OF manufacturers, hvenas and wolves
bound together by the coherent attractions
OF plurder"
Mr. Rand IN replying Sid that the question
at issue was so.ely whether Parks extorted
$500 from Plenty. He MADE a sensation in
court by dramatic arraiglment OF Bernard
Lynch, who had seat In the front row of
spectators Lynch got PieDty's check
casbed, and Plenty testified that Farev
mad said 10 Lynch: Sam sent me to cash this
check. Farley denied saying it, but Lynch
was not called by either side Mr. Rand
spoke of the Gefence's omission to call him,
and said
By the sworn testimony in this case |
say that Barney Lynch Is the man through
whose hands tits dirty money passed. On
this evidence declare that Barney Lynch
Keeps fence for extortioners and thieves
az flfty-rinth street and Third avenue.
Ihey Isk. Where is Barney Lynch2 I'll tell
YOU where he is"
Mr. Rand walked over to Lynch and
pointed at him.
There is Bernard lynch" he said.
Lynch, who is under indictment for per-
Jury in the preliminary proceedings, looked
:, After Col Robinson finished Directing to
hr Rand bringing in the name of any one
VINO vas not called az n witness, Mr.. Rand
continued:
Come, Barney Lynch, and tell TO whom
YOU gave that 5000"
AZ each mention Of Lynch's name Parks's