Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-03-27
MALoNEY FOR LIFE.
Such is His Sentence for the Murder Of
Nick Nachtscheim-Albert Stoeser
Gets Two Years-Other
Sentences.

EHHg1 e. SEwl.E =lENIf
The jury in the murder case
against Dan Maloney returned a YER
dict Of guilty, and fixed the punish
ment at imprisonment for life. The
jury was out fifteen hours.
Saturday was sentence day in the
district court, and the court room was
crowded with spectators.
Ed. Joannis who plead guilty to
maintaining a common nuisance at
Grand Harbor was given 80 days in
the county Jail and fined 5000 with an
additional sentence of 10 days for fail
ure to pay fine and costs amounting to
$3.50. The building in which Joannis
did business was adjudged a common
nuisance and the sheriff was ordered
to forthwith take possession of all
property in said building and close it
for the term Of year. The costs
Of suit and fine were ordered assessed
as a lien against said estate;3 The
court in %pronouncing sentence deliv-
cred a wholesome lecture to the de-
PENDANT holding him up as a fair
sample of a large class of citizens
who started violating the law BY
handling liquor. The court pointed
out that blind pigging served as a
school to almost any crime and if per-
sisted in would lead its victim to the
~penitentiary.
VIM. Cummings of Grand Harbor
was given the same sentence for a
like ofense.
VIM. Payton who had plead guilty
to the larceny of a team and wagon
was given n year in the peniten-
tiary. Payton thought the property
belonged to a man for whom he had
been working andsswho had refused to
pay him his wages.
Albert Stoeser who was convicted
of assaulting Louis Miller with a
deadly weapon was sentenced to two
years in the. penitentiary. Attorney
Denoyer counsel for the defenant en-.
tered a plea for leniency to the court.
The court, however, said he did moi
wholly share the opinion of the coun.
sci and incidentally warned the pris.
oner that upon his behavior at the ex.
piration Of his ssnence depended the
severity Of the sentence for two other
offenses to which a plea of guilty had
been entered.
Daniel Maloney was formally sen.
fenced to a life term in the peniten.
tiary. When asked if he had any
legal reason why sentence should not ,be
passed replied that he had not, but hi
would like to make q few remarks.
He stoutly maintained his innocenc.
and thanked the court, his attorney
the states attorney and court oflcial
for courtesies extended. He attribut
ed all his misfortunes to the use o
liquor.
MALONEY's STATEMENT.
Maloney requested the publication
of the following statement:
To the Press and the Public: NJ,
case is closed as far as I am con
cerned. Until such time as God ii
his infinite wisdom sees fit to max
my innocence plain to all the world
To the verdict my opinion has bee;
given before the court. It was IN
just to me and unjust to the public
flor the reason that if ] am puilty q
ALL am SO damnably guilty that
should be hanged like a dog and n
honest man should ever mention M
name except with horror and loathine
Therefore it is unjust to the publics.s
the punishment does not 6t the Grim,
1t is doubly unjust to me for ii
reason that it admits clearly and COZ
clusively the existence of at the leas,
a reasonable doubt in the minds Of til
jurors. and as..plainly stated by II