The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-10
GETS 7 YEARS
STATE PRISON SENTENCE
FOR lNCENDlARY.
Started One Fire That %Imperilled Lives
in Summit Place-Four Years for
elf-Confessed Burglar.

For setting an ~incendiary blaze. Gust to
see the fire horses rum" Hugh Drum
mond. an inveterate firebug. will spend the
next seven years of his young life In
State prison, less the usual time deducted
II he behaves himself. Drummond got
two terms of seven years each from
Judge Ten Eyck, in the Court of Special
Sessions, late yesterday afternoon, as told
in yesterdays night edition of the
EVENING STAR, but the terms were
made to run concurrently.
Drummond pleaded guilty some time ago
to setting fire to a stable in the rear of 30
Colder street. and a house I'm Summit
place, where the lives of many tenants
were endangered. For each offense he got
seven years. Drummond Is far from
bright.
The court also sentenced another batch
of cocaine fends, the greater number of
them getting off with probation sentences,
carrying with them the payment of small
weekly sums.
Louis Goffman pleaded guilty to four
charges of burglary, and was given Ave
years. Frank Holstein, an o%ld-timer, got
a similar sentence.
Michael Caputa got three years for
shooting a companion In the arm, the re-
suit of a quarrel In an Eighth avenue ga
loon. Joseph Sherlock went up for two
years IN charges of four bicycle thefts.
Others were sentenced as follows;
Charles L. Bernardo, negro, selling CO.
caine. sentence suspended. Lucy BrOXton,
negress. like offense. on probation for two
years and pay fifty cents a week; Robert
Broxton, like sentence, Lucy Cardwell,
negress, like offense, like SENTENCE; Thorn
as Callahan. assault and battery, on pro-
baton two years AMI pay twenty-five cents
a week: Philip Cohen. selling cocaine, on
probation fer two years and pay 81 a week;
Salvatore Francisco, assault and battery,
fined S25: William Huxton, like offense, on
probation for one year and pay fifty
cents a week; Edward Hofer, selling CO.
caine. or probation two years and pay
twenty-five cents a week; Joseph Isenberg,
like %offense, like sentence: Charles Patrick,
assault and battery. six months in the
penitentiary: Wilson Racklow, selling CO.
caine, two years and pay 81 a week; Lem
Williams. like offense. on probation for
two years and pay fifty cents a week;
Albert SNYDER. like %offense, like sentence;
Emma Smith, negress. like o~ffense, like
sentence; Emil Knrgus, assault and bat
terry. one month in jail; Albert Shalett,
false Dretenses. on probation for two years
and pay 81 q week: Wahra Steif. assault
and battery. like sentence; Louis Thles,
assault and battery. on probation for one
year and pay fifty cents a week; Helen
White. larceny, State Home for Girls.
Joseph Day. embezzlement, six months in
the Denitentiary; George Davis. larceny,
three months In the penltentiary; Edgar
Wooden. breaking and entering, State
Home Home for Boys: James Gillian,
selling cocaine, three months in the peni-
Tertiary and fined 500; Charles Mcbride,
larceny. two years probation and pay
fifty cents a week: Caroline Green, larceny,
nine months in the penitentlary; Charles
Leddy. breaking and entering, on probation
one year ad pay twenty-five cents a week;
James Fallon. larceny, like ~Offense, like
sentence: Harry Smith and James Cone,
larceny. on probation for one year and
pay twenty-five cents each a week; Irving
Scott. larceny. on probation for two years
pay 81 a month: Frederick Haab, sell
ing liquor on Sunday. fined 800; Edward
McLaughlin, Juvenile delinquent, State
Home for Boys; Charles Dustin. carrying
weapons, fined $50; William
Kelly. assault and battery. on probation
for two years and pay twenty-five cents a
week: Annie Burns, larceny, on probation
for one year and pay fifty cents n week.