Evening star., 1909-03-12
JANER GETS q YEARS
Sentenced at T0WS0n for As.
sauIt on Little Girl.
ACCEPTS HIS FATE COOLLY
Counsel Withdraws Motion for q
New Trial.
NO STATEMENT BY PRISONER
Wife Thankful That Penalty Was
Not Death-Victim of Crime
Goes to New York.
10 STATEMENT BY PRISONER
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch Ia The Star
BALTIMORE. March 1:.-Twcnty- one
years in the Maryland penitentiary is
the penalty dealt out To Joseph NJ.
Janer of Brooklyn. y. Y. 10y Judges
Burke and Duncan at Towson yestar-
day afternoon after he was convicted
of felonious assault upon Catherine
Loerch, twelve years DID, also of BROOK
lyn The sentence was imposed at 40
o'clock. the verdict of guilty being
rendered a minute or two earlier
! Joseph NJ. Janer. stand up said
Judge Burke, after the verdict of guilty
had been announced Janer stood UP ia
| an Indifferent manner.
! The sentence of this court is con-
! finement in the Maryland penitentiary
for twenty-one years, Judge Burke
announced. Janer nodded his lips
| moved in unison with his head and lie
said, Yes, sir scarcely above a wins
per Still unmoyed, apparently. he &C
companied Il deputy sheriff out of the
| courtroom to room in which his wife
was waiting He smiled and talked and
| hShted cigarette. JanerS wife showed
| no emotion other than seeming CRATE
ful that the sentence was not death.
Prisoner Takes Sentence Calmly.
Few persons were In the courtroom
when Janer was sentenced. The court
| had given it's verdict of guilty, MIR.
Edward l. Clark of Janer's counsel had
given notice of motion for a new trial
and the crowd which filled the court
| room all day long had gone outside
! Janer was taken to an adjoining room,
! where he and his wife had short talk
\ ana 1t was agreed that he should SUBJ
| init TO sentence without delay. Mr..
/ Clark returned to the courtroom and
/ MI for a fr{1
The verdict of guilty came after a
| brief deliberation the part of Judges
Burke and Duncan. Judge Burke an
nounced the verdict I'm a few words say
Ing that the court considered the crime
serious one and the verdict was guilty
on the first count of rape and not guilty
en- the five succeeding counts Janer ap-
parently took the verdict as calmly as il
the court had announced that the sun
was shining. States Attorney Owens.
who was sitting within few feet of the
man, says that he fiinched slightly.
Janer on the Stand an Hour.
Immediately preceding the verdict At
torney Edward H. Burke for Janer, and
Assistant States Attorney Latane con-
| sumed an hour in argument over the ad-
missibility of the testimony of Catherine
| Loerch as to her age. Judge Burke in
announcing the verdict said that the
| court did not pass on the motion. because
| the verdict was not guilty.
Janer was on the stand for about
! hour. In which he said he brought the
! girl to Baltimore with her mothers con
| sent and denied committing any assault.
He caused much amusement when he
said that for the last two years he had
! drunk gallon or more of whisky day.
He said II takes half a gallon in the
morning to sober him up.
DR.. George l.. Wilkins. the city jail
physician, declared on the stand that he
did not believe Janer and detied Attorney
Clark to prove than any man ever drank
gallcn of whisky a day and lived After
the trial Mrs. Janer said that her hus-
band never drank so much a day, but
that he drank all the time.
Attorney Clark sought to show that
Janer was helpless sot and did not
know what he was doing States Attor-
ney Owens. by course of clever ques-
tioning. showed that Janer knew all the
time he was in Baltimore what he was
doing.
The fingers Of both hands Of Janer were
stained a walnut brown from smoking
cigarettes.
Other Witnesses Examined.
The other witnesses yesterday were
Marshal of Police Farnan, Justice Eu-
gene Grammar of the central police sta
ton. DR.. r. Percy Smith. Walter A. Wen
deler, saloonkeeper; Charles H. Smith.
prisoner at the Jail, who has had charge
of Janer since his arrest and Edward
Fuller. attached to the naval recruiting
station. who took Janer home after 4
o'clock the morning of February g.
Catherine Loerch was taken to her home
In Brooklyn, arriving there this morning
No one knows what have suffered in
the past fifteen years" said Mrs Janer
All manner of torment have suffered at
Janers hands. and 1 am glad that he is
where he can do no harm to me or him
self. l am we'll acquainted with sorrow at
|
children. 1t may be that discipline will
benefit my husband during his incarcera-
ton, but ! doubt it, for he has never
known the meaning of the word
Mrs. Janer will return to her home in
Brooklyn today. Her face shows the pale
ness brought on by worry, and there was
sorrowful look i'm the womans face.
With all this she appeared beautiful in
her black broadcloth sui: and black hat
and brown veil
Mrs. Janer Is Thankful.
1.-THE attorneys for the defense did all
they could said Mrs. Janer, land 1 am
mighty thankful that my husband was
not sentenced to be hanged. l feel greatly
relieved to know that it is all over
States Attorney Owens made the fol-
lowing statement after sentence had been
pronounced:
"The punishment fits the crime. and It
is all that can be expected under the cir
with the verdict and the sentence
Said Attorney Clark for the defense:
II am mighty glad that the case was
tried before the judges. for the trial was
absolutely fair. and there is 10 fault 10
find with the court or any one concerned.
He was lucky to escape the hangmans
moose.
Mrs. Taylor said that Janer had been a
source of great trouble and worry 10 his
wife for years. and that she was afraid Of
him. She knew she couldn't do anything
one way the other in coming to Balti-
more, but she came because she was his
wife, Mrs. Taylor said Mrs. Janer and
Mrs. Taylor seemed perfectly satisfied
with the outcome of the trial, and Janer
did not seem to care. On the way from
the courthouse to the Towson Jail Janer
and his wife walked side by side he being
handcuffed.
Janer was taken to the Maryland peni-
tentiary in Baltimore today. II he lives
through his twenty-one-year sentence ne
may be taken to Brooklyn to stand trial
on the charge of abduction.
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