The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-09-24
GETS THIRTY YEARS
Henry Bushman, SeIf-confessed
AssaiIant Of Anna Doherty,
Gets Limit Sentence
SHOW HIM NO COMPASSION
Prisoner Declines to Ask for Mercy and
after Long Delay Tells Court of
Awful Crime Takes Sentence
Without Comment
(From Mondays Dailyl II

crime Of rape under your plea of
guilty, and it is the Judgment and
sentence Of the court that you, Henry
Bushman, be confined in the state pri-
son at Waupun at hard labor for
term of thirty years, beginning at noon
today, the first day and the 9Th day of
each September to be solitary. That
| is all. y ro5.s
In these few words Judge Belden
wrote the closing chapter of the awful
story of the assault made by Henry
Dushman upon Anna Doherty and be-
fore this. paper reaches the readers
Bushman will be on his way to the
state prison to spend his young man
hood. 1t was one of the longest SEN
fences ever imposed in the Circuit
Court here and the limit under the law
on the ofense charged.
Bushman took the sentence without
murmur, but there was great9lnmp
in his throat as he stepped back to be
taken into the Jail by the sheriff Just
before sentence was pronounced Bush
man himself told to the court part
| of the story Of the awful assault. He
made no claim for mercy at any time
| during the hearing, not even pleading
| his age and drunkenness as an excuse
for the crime.
In the presence of a great crowd of
people which filed all the available
space in the court room and which had
been drawn there in the expectation
| that his case would be called for hear
| ing Henry Bushman was arraigned in
the Circuit Court before Judge Belden
this afternoon shortly before O'Clock.
Bushman had little to say for him
self when brought before the court.
He waived the reading Of the informa-
ton against him and entered plea
of guilty and his only desire seemed
to be to get the matter over as quickly
as possible and to escape the scrutiny
of the prying eyes upon him in the
court room.
District Attorney Baker rehearsed
the facts in the case and told the story
Of the crime as confded to him by Bush
man in his confession made shortly af-
ter he had been apprehended by the
police. He also gave Miss Doherty s
account Of the assault as she gave it to
him at the hospital and ended sby de-
Imanding the full penalty of the law.
Leave for Prison
Manacled between Mike Golobosly and
IS. Pecaskas, the two men convicted as
common sWindIers in the Circuit Court
yesterday, Henry Bushman, thaozself
confessed assailant Of Miss Anna
Doherty left this morning for the state
prison at Waupun to begin a sentence
Of thirty years, the longest sentence
| ever imposed by a court in Kenosha
county for crime other than murder
in the first degree. The departure of
Bushman was at an opportune time as
| the members of the party took the
| train which left Kenosha for the north
| just after four o'clock this morning.
! 1t was still dark when Bushman and
| his companions under the guard of
Undersheriff Villnow and Deputies
Morehouse and Ted Wervie left for the
train and not person was stirring on
| the street. Bushman said absolutely
nothing, but when he was called in the
early morning to take the train for
prison he was ready and had evidently
been up most of the night expecting to
get out Of jail this morning. Bushman
| refused to even talk with the members
of the Jail force and put up his hands
for the manacles without word of
complaint or farewell. AS the start
for the train was being made, one of
| the brothers of Bushman, came to the
county Jail to say good bye for the
members of the family, but there was
no fearful farewell. Bushman simply
| shouted back as he was led away and
| left no message for the members of the
family, Notwithstanding the fact that
he was going away for thirty years.
| The brother of the boy complained
that the members of the family had not
been advised of the time Of the de-
parture Of Bushman for prison, but
Bushman seemed to be thankful to the
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officers that he had not been forced to
face his father and other members of
the family. The brother declared that
the father Of Bushman was crushed by
the disgrace brought Upon the family
by the son and he is now i'll at his
home.
Bushman will reach Waupun just af
ter noon and at that time he will have
served one whole day of the thirty year
sentence as his sentence began at noon
Monday.
The sentence Of Bushman has been
generally approved in the city by all
classes of people. Many people thought
that an effort would be made to get a
small sentence for Bushman, but it is
understood that neither the prisoner
himself nor any Of the members Of the
family took any steps to secure legal
aid for the accused man and it is
doubtful if any attorney could have