The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-31
MEN ARE
SENT
WOMEN SOB
Wife and Mother Both
Break DOWn--LaW Pun
ishes Nearly 100.

Two women, one a wife and the other
a mother. gave way under the strain CT
seeing those neal and dear TO them
sentenced by Judge Ten Eyck in the
Court of Special and Quarter Sessions
late yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Walter
Guyon, whose husband received a
sentence of nine months in the peniten-
tiary for embeZzlement, and the other,
Mrs. Hattie Rand, mother of Charles
Rand, whose son was sent to State
Prison for three years for crimlnally
assaulting a girl.
The first uttered a low cry and was
led out of the crowded court room to
the corridor, where she soon revived.
Mrs. Rand, an elderly woman, needed
the services of a physician. as she had
tainted after reaching the corridor. DIR.
Edward w. Markers restored her.
There were no less than ninety-four
violators of the law whose punishment
was made to fit the crime.
Luther Barnes, the young negro who
caused the death of Charles Smith, also
a negro, August IA last after a row in
a saloon in upper Orange that was con-
tinued on the sidewalk, was sentenced
to six months in the p~enitentiary.
Barnes fractured Smiths skull with a
stone. In passing sentence upon him
the court said that the prisoner had
already spent FIVE months in jail and
that the facts in the case warranted
%leniency. He told Barnes, too, that
there was no intention to cause death
and that the act was a most unfortu-
nate one.
Several State Prison sentences were
imposed. George Donack, a burglar by
instinct and habit, who did his last job
in this county November IA last, when
he robbed a shoe store, was sent to
Trenton for five years, while George
Miller. another habitual Crook" who
was caught November 81 last, after
having robbed a man of q watch and
some money, was sent there for three
years.
Matte Jones. a negress, who had a
like re~prehensible habit, also got three
years. Arthur Scanlon. a youth. who
stabbed a trolley conductor, got two
years and a severe lecture.
Several of the pending d~isorderly
house cases were disposed of with
fines and probation. Louis II. Trow-
bridge, who conducted a place in FIRE.
%linghuysen avenue. was placed on pro-
baton for three years and told to pay
$500. William Allen, who did business
in Mill street, BelIeville, and sold on
Sunday, as we'll as kept a disorderly
house, was put on probation for a like
term and fined 5000 for the first named
offense and $500 for the latter. Samuel
Blatt. proprietor of the Girard, on
lower Bank street, vas put on proba-
ton for two years and fined $500. Sam
uel Reeves, of Union avenue, Irvington,
was "probated" for a like time and
directed to pay $500. All of these Of
tenders, who were caught In the
Sheriff's dragnet some months ago,
paid their fines. Other smaller disor-
derby house cases were also disposed of.
Abraham and Max G~reenstein, ar
rested for robbing the United States
Express Company of several hundreds
of pairs of trousers and thousands Of
cigars and selling them to Morris Baer,
of Belmont avenue, were placed on
probation for two years and fined $50
each. while the receiver was fined
ST. 900. He stood trial. The Greensteins
had confessed.
These sentences were also passed
Bertha Seller, disorderly house, two
charges, sentence suspended; James
Farraher. Sunday selling, fined $3.50;
Charles Lacey, embezzlement, New
Jersey State Reformatory; James Saw
age. negro, carrying concealed weapons
and assault and battery, eighteen
months in the p~enitentiary; Louis Bor-
man, Illegal pictures, fined $3.50; Louis
Heller, Sunday selling, fined 5000;
Abraham Mehlman. like offense, fined
5000; Patrick Dammon, like ~offense,
fined $500; Dominick Casale, alias
Dominick Scassero, carrying concealed
weapons, fined S75; Robert II. Ed
wards, %atroeious assault and battery,
nine months in the pe%nitentiary;
Michael j. Pagan, assault and battery,
three months in the p~enitentiary; Goro
Scorano, ~disorderly house, six months
in the p~enitentiary; Lorenzo Ebanisto.
carrying concealed weapons, lined SIS;
James r. Murphy, larceny and re-
ceiVing, New Jersey State Reforma-
tory; Christopher McDonough, assault
and battery upon wife. one year in the
penitentiary; Luigi Borno, carrying
concealed weapons, fined 500; William
II. Harris. larceny and receiving and
embezzlement, one year in the peni-
Tertiary; William j.. Taylor, selling in
decent pictures, on probation. for three
years; Frank w. Connolly and Frank
c.. DAILY, breaking, entering, larceny
and receiving, on probation each for
two years: Max Cohen, embezzlement.
committed to State Home for Boys;
John K. Bogart, assault and battery