Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
WOULD REMAIN
WITH HUSBAND
WIFE OF CHARLES sHuLTz
PLEADS WITH COURT TO
SEND HER TO ANAMosA.
PRISONERS SENTENCED
MeBee Leaves for Fl. Madison Today;
Balance to Reformatory Monday
Mary Judson and Sadie Waites
Convicted.

The resemblance Of the wifes
fidelity to, her husband with the cling.
Ing ivy to the garden wall, was amply
Illustrated this morning in the district
court, when rather than be separated
from her husband, Mrs. Charles
Shultz, after being granted a new
trial, begged with copious tears
streaming down her cheeks that she
be given sentence with her husband
In the reformatory in Anamosa. The
court granted her request and the
thought Of undergoing the period OF
punishment in the state reformatorS
was as nothing compared to the joy
visible when she learned that she
might be with her husband.
Judge Granted New Trial.
Inc opening of court by Judge G.
| w. Vermilion this morning was be-
gun by the hearing of motions for a
new trial by the counsel for William
McBce, Charles Shultz and the wife
of the latter. Attorneys 10 R. Jaoues
and j. A. Lowenberg in their plea TO.
a re-trial of the three defendants
claimed the trial recently finished nc
unfair to their clients. After hearing
the request of the counsel, the court
ruled against McBee and Shultz, but
granted Mrs. Shultz a new trial and
released her on her own recognizance
without bond
Ten Years For McBee.
me first defendant to receive SEN
tense was William McBee, whom the
court denied the request to be sent
TO Anamosa on the grounds that he
had formely been convicted twice of
felony and served sentences. ''Ten
years term at hard labor in the peni.
Tertiary at FIT. Madison will be your
portion" said the court, and your
behavior in that institution will govern
the length of your term as the board
OF parole has certain jurisdiction over
such prisoners The fact of the
former convictions denied the right
OF choice by the court as to where
the prisoner should serve his sen.
tence. McBee is 81 years of age.
McBee will be taken this afternoon
to Fl. Madison where he will begin
his ten year sentence. The balance
of the prisoners will be taken
to Anamosa to begin their terms OF
confinement.
! Shultz Gets Ten Years,
4 CHARLES Shultz gave his age as %
years, and owing to this being his
first conviction, ten years in the re
formatory at Anamosa was melted out
to him by the court, who told the
prisoner that his sentence was of the
lndeterminate character and would
not exceed that length of time, but
by proper behavior might be lessened
Two Plead For Napier.
Attorneys L. A. Duke and w w
RANKIN made request for leniency
OF the court toward Henry Nepier
convicted of the charge of larceny OF
poultry. The court, however, review
ed the past of the prisoner and meted
out two years in the Anamosa re
formatory as the punishment for
Napier.
Received With Joy.
With an expression of Joy, mucn
the same as one would expect to see
II the prisoners were given thei.
freedom or going to a picnic, tbs
faces of Mary Judson and Sadie eau
terbury Waites shone with apparent
pleasure when the court pronounced
their sentence this morning. Five
\ r.
was their portion and they seemed
to enjoy it. A more studied disregard
for lay, order and the mandates o!
the court, careless abandon and a
general Observation-Disclosures atti-
tude characterized these two damsels
who we're convicted of prostitution
and whose penchant for breaking out
of Jail was almost habit
Springs Sensation.
Upon conclusion of the passing OF
| sentences upon the above mentioned
persons, the court was about to take
4 up the continuation Of the Erbacher
hearing, when Mrs. Charles Shultz
who following the passing of sentence
on her husband seemed displeased
and agitated, approached the court
and weeping violently begged to grant
her sentence in Anamosa with her
husband. So insistent was her re-
quest that she be not separated frola
her husband and that she share with
him in his punishment for the steal.
ing of the sugar from the Merrill
] warehouse, in which with her husband
and McBee, she was charged. the
court granted her request and she,
too, will go to Anamosa under inde,
| terminate sentence of ten years