The San Francisco call., 1905-03-28
TWO PRISONERS
Are SENTENCED
Harry Radcliffe, Convicted
of Murder in the Second
Degree, to Serve II Years
GIRL WIFE HYSTERICAL
Ernest Moore Chadwick Will
Spend the Next Ten Years
|. in San Quentin for Perjury

. Harry Radcliffe was sentenced by
Judge Cook yesterday to serve seven
teen years in San Quentin for murder
in the second degree and Ernest Moore
Chadwick, alias Sir" Harry West
wood Cooper. was sentenced TO serve
ten years on a charge of perjury. Both
wives of the defendants were in court
and Radcliffe's girl wife went into
Mysteries and was led out of the court
room by her sister and her mother-in-
law.
Radcliffe shot and killed Andrew
Riley at Ninth and Sheridan streets on
the morning of June 26. He said Riley
had insulted his wife and during a
struggle Riley threw him down, and,
being afraid of hiss life, he fired in
self-defense. The theory of the police
was that the defendant attempted to
hold up Riley and when Riley showed
fight he was shot and killed.
Witnesses were called yesterday to
testify as to the defendants good char
acter. The Judge in passing sentence
said that he had to accept the verdict
of the jury as far as acquittal on the
robbery theory was concerned. The
defendants previous character had
been good and as this was his first Of
fense he would fix, the punishment ac-
cordingly. If the defendants conduct
was good in the penitentiary he might
be paroled.
Chadwick was convicted of perjury
in falsely testifying in his own behalf
at his trial in Judge .Lawlor's court in
1901 or charge of sending by tele-
graph a. false and forged message pur-
porting to be from another person. He
had eloped in February. 1901, with
Norine Schneider from Vallejo juno
ton shortly after his release from San
Quentin after serving a. term for utter
ing and passing fictitious draft in
1897. He represented to the girl and
her family that he was a physician of
wealth and induced her to become his
wife by showing her kilograms purport-
ing to have been sent by her mother,
consenting to their marriage. He was
arrested ON the arrival CT the train at
Ogden. He was convicted on the
charge of sending the forged tele-
grams, but took an appeal to the Su-
preme Court and was granted new
trial. Meantime he had been tried and
convicted by a jury in Judge Cook S
court on the perjury cnarge, but sem
tence was deferred pending the result
of the appeal to the Supreme Court
on the forgery charge.
When sentence was to be passed
upon MIN OndQWlCk DcSSeQ the QO6C
to take into consideration the fact that
he had already spent four years and
two months in Jail since his arrest in
Ogden and that there was no possi-
bility of obtaining a parole. He did
not add that he had been married in
the County Jail.
After sentence had been passed upon
Cooper his attorney. Frank j. MUIR
ply, said he was ready to proceed
with the trial of the forgery case. The
Judge remarked that he thought the
one sentence would be enough for both
cases and the forgery case might stand
till it was seen whether the sentence
was final, as an appeal was to be taken
to the Supreme Court.
Assistant District Attorney Ashe
said he would need to consult with the
District Attorney and the case was
continued till April l to be set.