The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-24
His Companion, Munro, Goes to
St. Cloud; a Youth.
John Kelly to Saltwater For
TWenty-one Months.
Arthur Wilson and Thomas Con.
nors Given Nine Months.
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
The prisoners were sentenced this af-
ternoon in the district court. John Kel-
ly, who pleaded guilty to attempt at
grand larceny, was the first called up
He said that he is twentysix years
old, has no trade and has been rail
way and farm laborer.
Judge Plymat asked for the lenency
of the court, as this was Kelly's first Of
Tense and the crime was committed
while he was drunk.
The court said that the circumstances
of the case impell to the belief that his
only purpose in going to Brett's store
was to steal. The court said that he
was going to see that the prisoner
earned enough money to repay the state
for the expense that it had been to in
defending him. Kelly belonged to that
class who throw themselves on the
charity of the people when in trouble.
and pasture on them when at liberty.
He sentenced the defendant to one year
and nine months in the Saltwater
prison.
Arthur Wilson. convicted of grand lar
oeny in the second degree in stealing Il
shirt from store at Lake Crystal, said
that he is thirty-one years oud, is of
Scotch nationality, is Il ships filter by
trade, and his home is in Liverpool, Eng
land
Judge Plymat said that Wilson had
been an industrious laborer, but his be-
setting evil was drink. 1t was his first
ntfense and he asked the leniency of the
court. He had already served fifteen
days for drunkenness and the article
stolen was only a shirt.
County Attorney Wilson said that it
was not so much the amount that was
taken as the manner of taking it. Will
son could well be retired from public
circulation without public regret There
try, for the court had to appoint an at
torney to defend him.
The court said that there was no ex-
cuse for the prisoner having no money
after all these years of industry men
toned by his attorney. He proposed
that the prisoner should earn +he money
back at compound interest that the
state had spent upon him. He sentenc
ed Wilson to Saltwater for nine months
Thomas Corners, who was convicted
of the same offense that Wilson was,
also got nine months at Saltwater. He
said that he is thirty one years old, and
has no trade, but has done railway
work. He formerly lived in Illinois, but
has no home at present.
Samuel Jacobson, who pleaded guilty
to forgery in the second degree, said that
he is twentyfour years old, Norweg-
ian, and had been bookkeeper and
waiter. He was sentenced to Stillwat-
er for three years and four months.
George Munro, who pleaded guilty
to forgery in the second degree, got off
easier than his pal, because of his youth,
he being but seventeen years old. He
was sent to the state reformatory at st,
Cloud for an indefinite period. When
asked about his family, he said that his
father ran away from home when the
defendant was but eight years old, and
his present whereabout are unknown.
John Dahlen will probably be sentenc-
ed for abandonment of his family to-
morrow afternoon. He is the only one
remaining to be sentenced.
County Attorney Wilson spoke of
James Gallagher's case and said that he
would be unable to make stronger case
against him than he had made, and mas
much as the jury had seen fit to ac-
quit him on the first indictment he felt
justified in dismissing the other indict-
ment and moving that the defendant be
discharged.
The court made an order dismissing
the Indictment and discharging the de-
PENDANT.
The jury in the case of c. NJ. Fuller,
respt., VS.. Robert Peterson, applt., re-
tired at 9:l5 a. m. today and returned
ut ll:l0 a. m. with a verdict for $23.3J
for the plaintiff. In justice court the
plaintiff got but SIS and defendant APP
pealed from that.
The appeal of f. S. Lewis from an or
der of the probate court in the matter