The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-28
ASSAULT ON WOMEN AND GIRLS
W lGISTRATES Not SEVERE
ENOUGH, GEN. BINGH AM THINKS.
IN mplcs From = Gases That the Police
Have Arrested Mep For I'm Three Months
-Ftfty-nVe or the Prisoners Have Been
Held for Trial and More Let do.

FIFTY -nNe or the Prisoners Have Been
Held for Trial and More Let do.
Police Commissions Bingham believes
there would be fewer attacks on women
and girls il the maximum punishment was
melted out to offenders and IL greater care
was taken by the police magistrates TO hold
prisoners for trial. In the last three months
tha police nave made about 1870 arrests for
A~saulH on women and girls. The records
show that at least ffty-ntne Of these pns-
oners we're discharged by the Magistrates
after only the ~perfunctory police court
c=apinstion. Ffty-five prisoners were held
for trial and eight are yet to he examined
Half a dozen have been sentenced.
Some of the persons charged with a crime
punishable by a sentence Of twenty years
in State prison have been sent up for only
one or two months and in some cases ines
have been imposed. One case which the
police believe warranted a much more
careful investigation than could be had in
the hurry and confusion Of a crowded police
court calendar came up before Magistrate
Luke J. Connorton in Queens. This was
the case OF an attack on Catherine Daual,
81 years old. OF 81 Walnut street. Winfield.
She was found about 10 O'Clock on the
night of July II lying in a s-emi-conscious
condition in q back yard not far from her
home. She was removed to st. Johns
Hospital suffering from q laceration Of
the right hand, a wound on the forehead
and a possible fracture OF the skull. The
police arrested Frederick Palmateer, an en-
gineer, 80 years old. Inspector James +.
Nally has reported on the case to Commits
sioner Bingham as follows:
AT 10 +. NJ. on July Is. 1907. Capt. John
u rawlsnar ~ tho AAx,.pN. .o...~L -
cinct and Plain Clothes Patrolman Henry
W. Schroeder {. the Twelfth inspection
district went with the prisoner to st. Johns
Hospital, where the complainant identified
him as the person who had assaulted her.
On the morning of July 10. 1907, the prisoner
was arraigned in the Second District Mag
~istrates' Court, Queens. The complainant
being unable to appear, Patrolman
Schroeder made a short affidavit charging
the prisoner with being the person who
committed the assault upon the complain
ant.
Up to 2 P. NJ. said date. no Magistrate
appeared at the said court and the clerk
OF the court Hewlett) stated to the patrol
man that the Magistrate would not appear
and that Magistrate Matthew j. Smith
had telephoned to him and instructed him
TO parole all prisoners until Monday. July
@on Monday the prisoner appeared at
the said court, the complainant being at
~ ON = IlObDlbdl GIu tldDl 10 dpDthT
1.-The prisoner was arraigned before Mag
strate Luke j. Conorton. who was informed
of all the particulars in the case by the
patrolman. In reply the said Magistrate
stated to the patrolman that he understood
that the prisoner was keeping company
with the woman whom he assaulted FOR a
number of years and without further COM
ment discharged the prisoner"
1t was not explained yesterday what
had happened to the Queens court on July
IN Nhat nA.A@atNaNAl NhA Na-1snD 81. eh~oA
days of all the prisoners, one of whom was
charged with felony. Also IL has not been
explained what difference It made in the
eyes of the law if the prisoner a been
keeping ompany with the woman.
No single Magistrate OF group Of Magis-
trates seems to show any special leaning
toward lenity in these case. The number
OF discharges run pretty evenly, so far as
the individuals are concerned. Among the
cases where slight fines have been imposed
by Magistrates are these, selected from
the police records:
Max Sass, % years old, arrested on April
7 on a charge of attempted rape, was sem
fenced TO six months in the p~enitentiary by
Magistrate Sweetser.
Wolf Aronstein. arrested on April 30 on
a charge Of indecent assault, was fined SO
by Magistrate Barlow.
John Il. Rogers, arrested on March 30
on a similar charge Of assault on an eight
year;old girl. was fined $40 by Magistrate
Finelite.
Magistrate Sweetser sentenced Joseph
Miller, an Italian, who was arrested for
assault, to three months imprisonment.
The fines in some Of these assault cases
we're as low as IS, and in one case a penalty
Of ten days in the city prison was inflicted
by a Brooklyn Magist rate. The police
records for the month Of July show an in
crease relatively in the number Of prisoners
held by the Magistrates. Tha may or
may not be due to the agitation which
has resulted from so many attacks recently
on young girls Magistrate Crane, sitting
in the Essex Market court IN Thursday.
went out of his way to make it plain that all
unen who nave been arrested for attacking
women or girls will get all they deserve IL
they are brought before him.
There have been ffty-six arrests for at
tacks on women and girls in the month
Of July alone. The number OF prisoners
discharged is twenty. as compared with
about thirty held to answer to the charges.
The police denied yesterday the story
told by Virginia Ida Barish. the seventeen
year-old daughter Of Lawrence Barish Of
North Beach. She said she had been as
saulted by nine men. who left her with many
injuries and with but few clothes in the
woods back Of North Beach. After a care
full investigation the police say they are
satisfied that no such attack took place.
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