The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-09
Threatened With Jail.


Attorney Nelson interposed, 1--WE are
here to take sentence" he said mot to
| be lectured. We"
Mr.. Nelson" said Judge Dunno warm
~, IF you interrupt these proceedings
again / will send you to Jail. You would
be in far better business if you were beg
ging for day in court to answer the
charge that you wilifully and improperly
attempted to tamper with juror in this
CASE
Il am ready" responded Metson. ito
answer, now or at any other time, any
charge that may be lodged against me
take exception to the remarks of the
court addressed to the defendant and to
the improper and uncaIled for insinuation
of the court against myself"
To this Judge Dunno made no reply, but.
turning to the mayor, he resumed: You
were elevated to the position because of
the confidence and great trust reposed in
you by the mass of the people. You have
by your wiliful, criminal act, so jury Of
your fellow citizens has declared, broken
the confidence and betrayed that trust"
Here Schmitz spoke UP again, protesting
against the lecture the court was i'm
posing. Judge Dunno took no notice
Therefore he cOnefnued, 'it may be
said that the penalty which the law per-
mits in this case is insufficient TO meet
the demands of justice. 1t may be sug-
gested, however, that by your conviction
you Will lose the respect and esteem of
all good citizens and men; that you will
suffer the humiliation of knowing that
your career Of hypocrisy, duplicity and
dishOnOr-"
81 stand here as an American citizen to
demand my rights" interposed Schmitz
I'm not asking any leniency at the hands
Of this court. 1 am prepared to receive
sentence. L ask that your honor do your
duty and pronounce it Immediately and
that be not subjected to humiliation and
degrading remarks which the papers are
copying and will repeat. ] say If your
honor has any self-respect you will pro-
coed with the sentence"
A Singing Reply.
cit is not unusual" was Judge Dunne's
singing reply, 'for courts to be brought
into contact with such brazen acts of eff
frontry as yours in the present. It Is
the duty of the court in such cases to
view the conduct of a convicted felon
with patience and liberation, not to say
pity. By your conviction you will lose the
respect and esteem of all good men and
citizens. You will suffer the humiliation
hypocrisy, duplicity and dishonor has
been exposed, and that you stand before
those who believed in and honOred you
morally naked. shamed and disgraced."
81 deny that" said Schmitz. '"The peo-
pie of San Francisco know how / was
railrOaded through"
Judge Dunno resumed:
Morally naked, shamed and diShonored.
1t is in the knowledge of these things
rather than in any mere term OF impris-
onment in state penitentiary, that the
full measure of your punishment be
found.
at is the Judgment OF this court that
you be confined in the state prison at
San QUENTIN for a term of five years"
Then, If in direct and contemptuous
reply to the prisoners denial of a mo-
ment before, the big crowd turned loose
it's feelings in a cheer that ratified the
windows and drowned the sharp rapping
Of the bailiff for order.
Immediately after resuming his seat at
the counsel table Schmitz dictated the
following statement to the Associated
Press:
Court Was Unfair.
'aThe court wherein I received my sem
tence for the charge of extOrtion again
demonstrates and more clearly than any
thing else that 81 has harefafnra dnna q