The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-03-12
spsaH 70 The Washington Hsrsld

Special to The Washington Herald
Baltimore, Nd, March u-Twenty-one
years IN the penitentiary was the sentence
imposed on Joseph NJ Janer, OF Brooklyn,
n. Y. upon the charge OF assaulting
eleven-year-old Catherine Loerch, by
Judges n. Charles Burke and Frank L
Duncan in the Circuit Court OF Baltimore
County at Towson to-day.
Janer would have been sentenced to be
hanged but for the BELIEF on the part of
the judges that he was not sound men
tally.
Janer received the sentence IN silence.
but with indifference. After leaving the
stand he said: It's a long time to pen
q fellow UP. isn't it7' Janer is now
thirty-eight. He viii be fifty-nine when
he leaves prison.
Janer was found guilty on the frst
count IN the Indictment The court had
the discretion Of either hanging him or
sentencing him from eighteen months
TO twenty-one years.
Edward I. Clark, counsel for Janer.
made motion for new trial, but after
consultation with the judges he with
drew It, probably being convinced that a
new trial might send his client to the
gallows. While the judges did not be-
lieve Janer was insane. they thought him
weak mentally.
Wife Loyal 20 the Last.
When sentence was pronounced Janer
faced his judges with stated indifference.
Not word escaped him. not a move OF
his countenance betrayed his feelings. His
loyal wife stood looking out Of a court
room window. She did not turn around.
but suppressed agony was written on her
face The LOerch child sat in court with
her big. black eyes wide open in astonIsh-
NEXT as IL she did not understand it all.
Janer sighed as he stepped out OF the
dock and stretched out his hands as a
sheriff approached with handouts.
Silence re:gned as he was led out 70 the
county JAIL Mrs. Jauer walked beside
her husband. But one remark escaped
her; ''Oh. such sorrow"
Janer talked about his children and hts
New York home but displayed no emo
ton While packing up his effects in the
jail. his wife sat in the corridor and
vept.
Taken to Prison at Once.
Janer was placed aboard an electric
car. and accompanied by his wife
brought TO Baltimore TO enter the peni-
Tertiary. His wife decided not 10 see
him enter the prison walls. and they
kissed and parted on the street a square
away from the institution. As Janer
reached the portals OF the prison he
Tipped a half-burned cigarette into the
street. and then the doors Of the peni-
Tertiary closed on him for the best years
OF his life
he testified that the mother Of the Loerch
girl had agreed with him 10 come to Bal
timore and open a boarding house. He
also said that he thought the best way
to get the mother here was to bring her
child 10 this city. He admitted that he
had been drinking. and said ne had taken
a gallon and a half Of bug juice" the
night he came to Baltimore with the
girl. but denied assaulting her.
Janer Was Drunk.
Edward Fuller testified he net Janer
in Wendler's Hotel, 400 North Calvert
street, February ..
II left him at AIS on the morning
OF the 81. About p. m. on February .
he took the child home to Gil Calvert
street, where they were stopping She
threw the key to him from the window
of their room. was with him until 4
a. m. When I left him at MS place he
was drunk Re had been drinking al
night. ] took him home because he was
81 drunk"
How drunk was hep he was asked
WAS he helpless2"
He could hold on 70 the Ismp-post.
said Fuller.
How many drinks did you take?'
About six all evening
How l.iany cid he take?"
Every time the barkeeper looked.
gUess-abOut one every half-hour,
guess"
About twenty-one drinks. them"
Safely that much-chieay liquor; wills
ky He seemed just getting over one
drunk"
BY getting on another
yes. sir
Mrs. Janer will leave for Brooklyn to-
morrow. The Loerch girl left for heI
homo