The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1904-12-01

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The district courtroom was crowded
almost to suffocation this morning
when IL s,srt was opened The an
notincemen sade yesterday that the
| persons COM ,aaad Of crimes at this
term of court were to be sentenced to-
| day was the cause of the interest in
| the proceedings. 7
Soon after court opened, M. A. Hill
dreth made a motion that arest oil
Judgment be entered on the record III
/ the cases. of OiMalley and Sanders,
convicted Of robbery. The attorney
filed with the clerk his motion in writ
ing. H. F. Miller followed with a mo-
ton for rest Of judgment in the case
fof Ella Forester and Taylor Crum with
the same motion in the case of Morris
O'Brien., Z
Each of the prisoners were then ask
ed if they had any good reason why
Judgment Should not be passed against
| them. Morris O'Brien made lengthy
thst -, .ta,,4 ,,';t,ass r.ri,o,, ~ Iad
@ dana,,d .d F,,na,, 49, - nrove ;,,rnrtas,, s,
factss {, h;s beb.tf had not heep nress
emf in the Court when reonired
Ella Eorester handed the co,rt
Iattar.s ,ub;ch 1ater ,v.s .nno,,ncad s,,,
| Tndae Poj1ocl as "a wo,nar,s anneal
,src,,nl - s !. - -, 1
;s ,,ot IN her owt, account sa;d
thlA ,,.rt, ab,,t for her DAUGHTER am
al appeaI hard to resist" =
| Before p% ING sentence on Young
Ewho had Ma gued guilty Tudpe Pollock
asked to hear testimony! Judge. Bar,
Enett called Dwight L. buckingham tc
Ithe stand The witness told how he
lhad been held up by Young and tive
other men and testified as to later iden-
Ififying the watch which had been taken
|from him and which was found in
Young's possession Chief of Police
lMalvey then testified to arrestine
Young and finding in the prisoner
pockets the stolen property.
| In passing sentence upon tI1es priso.
liners Judge Pollock discussed in 4 gen,
eral way the causes creating crimes: re-
lferred to the public discussions thereof
lby the press and stated what seemed to
Ihim to be the d,,ty of the court and Of.
Ulcers of the law in relation thereto
IIncidentally he touched IN the cigarette
lauesfion. Among other things he said
"a recent number of McCIure's mag
lazine makes the. statement that. There
are Al nresent four and ! half times as
Imany murders and l,omicides for each
million of people in the United States
THAN there were n 1891 The harvest
Eof death n three wears 4 stated com
Iparatively al follows.
SD Honicides in the United States a.
aos.
i sRr;t;sb loss Is Roer vrar % noo r.
/ ssKiiied 81 - Z raiIroads ii, . 81 sAz' ~ -'s'
s.The same writer administers i Sc.
lvere Remuneration mon the5 reign, ot
such ! criminal oliparchyo and attrib.
|utes the earse mich ~ ! general fa;l,re
;n tl,e enforcen,e,,t If o,,r s stat,,tes stsd
aWr;ters far tte nress peneral1v te1
Lus that Tie crimes 81 larceny and rob.
Rbery are very much moon tie increase
| The CHICAGO Daily News remarks aNoi
onlv Are rohheries i;,,ereas s;no i, n,,fahe,
E;n -hicaoo b,,t the l,iphwa.vraen are
imnre Ioid and desnerate fl,an formerlv
There has heen q ! ,,,arked ana s;onif.
Icant change n the Character of these
crimes during recent wears. Formerly
| the footDad rarely resorted to violence
save as 4 means of avoiding arrest. To.
l,dav flle robbers weapon is' used to Il.
lure lure. mann and Kill And the same
liournal adds. sIf the people. throupf