The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-25
Train Robbers Draw About Fiji
teen and Thirteen Years.
Jas. Swallow Receives Twelve
Years, Six Months.
Others Are Handed Reminders
of Their Evil Deeds.
From Wednesdays Daily.

from wednesdays Dauy.
Seven prisoners received their SEN
fences in the district court this after
noon, cleaning up the entire criminal
calendar.
The train robbers were the first to APP
pear. Charles Sanders stated that he is
forty-nine years of age, and II. L.
Schmitt made a plea for him, saying
that he was out of money and acted
on the impulse of the moment and ask
ed for leniency.
Judge Cray said that he could not bet
ter express his idea of the gravity of the
offense committed than by the sentence
which he would pronounce. He then SEN
fenced Sanders to hard labor at Still
water prison for fourteen years and ten
months.
Thomas Murray said he is eighteen
years old. Mr.. Schmitt asked the court
to consider his extreme youth and give
him as short a sentence as possible.
The court said that it was evident
that Murray, though young in years,
was schooled in vice and was familiar
with the ethics of law breakers not
to disclose on each other. He sentenc-
ed Murray to Saltwater for twelve
years and ten months
James Swallow, who bound and rob-
bed an old lady in Danville, stated that
he is thirty nine years old. Harry Volk
spoke briefly for him, and the court
stated that the crime was a peculiarly
cowardly one. He sentenced Swallow
to Saltwater for twelve years and six
months.
Joseph McCann said he is thirty-three
years old, with wife in ST. Paul. w.
A. Plymat spoke of his previous good
conduct, and the court gave him one
year and eleven months at Saltwater.
Mccain is the man who robbed T. III.
Foley's blacksmith shop.
Harry Dillon said he is twenty seven
years old. Mr.. Plymat spoke for him.
The court observed that the fluent man.
ner in which he had fabricated on the
witness stand led to the belief that he
was not entirely new in the ways of
crime. He sentenced Dillon to one year
and eleven months at Saltwater. Dillon
stole watch from George Otto's repair
shop.
Harry Perry, who committed robbery
at the camp meeting at the Morse Min
eral Springs last summer, said he was
twenty three years old. w. W. Smith
asked for reformatory sentence for
him, and the court gave him an indie
terminate sentence at st. Cloud
Frank Clark, who robbed the till of
the Clifton House, said his age was
sixteen years. He admitted that he had
previously been arrested and punished
in Mankato for disorderly conduct and
petit larceny. Mr. Plymat said his
career was due to bad company and ask
ed for sentence to the state training
school at Red Wing for him.
The court said that Clark had start
ed out pretty fast when he was arrest
ed three times in one summer for
criminal offenses. He sentenced Clark
to the state reformatory at st. Cloud,
and said that he hoped he would be
kept there long enough to be disciplined
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ter life when he came out.
Sheriff Williams will take the prison
ers away as rapidly as possible.
w. A. Plymat asked for prison SEN
fences for Mccain and Dillon, in pref
erence to the reformatory.
ed at $3.50 p. m. yesterday with verdict
of guilty. In the Dillon case the jury
returned at 1920 a. m. today and came
in an hour later with verdict of guilty
The trial of Clark was taken up and
four witnesses for the state had been
examined when he changed his plea to
guilty.
Twelve persons were indicted by the
grand jury, and of these five pleaded
guilty, five were convicted by juries, and
two pleaded guilty after their trials
had begun. Not one got off. This reflects
great credit upon County Attorney Will
son.
Miss Norma Gliding will spend Thanks
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