Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-13
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Alton Vale Placed on Probation
After He ConfeSses Theft
of a Motorcycle
CRAWFORD SENT TO PRISON
Deserter from Navy and Band
Master Committed to
Folsom for Theft

After placing Alton vaile, 10 years
old and confessed burglar, on proba-
tion for five years yesterday, Judge
Willis of the criminal department OF
the superior court commanded him to
remain in court the remainder of the
morning that the other sentences might
be object lessons to him.
Vale has a mania for mechanics, and
became extremely anxious to possess a
motorcycle. So violent became his
desire for a machine of that kind that
when he found one May % in the rear
of the home of L. w. Pltzer, at fSo
Maple avenue, he stole it.
In placing the boy upon probation
the Judge ordered him to go work for
o. e. Magee, who will teach him TO
become a mechanic, and also Will act
as a special probation officer to Whom
the culprit must report once week,
making a regular monthly report, In
addition. to Capt. A. G. Dodds, county
probation officer.
He also must save $40 month, and
is forbidden to possess or to have any
thing to do with motorcycles. III ne
needs a machine of that kind he must
seek the courts permission before De-
coming its possessor.
When all the arrangements for
Vaile's probation were made Judge
Willis told him to remain in court
for the remainder of the morning ses-
sion so that he might learn how other
offenders were treated and observe the
effect upon them of penitentiary SEN
tences.
Harold Dorles, accused of assault
with a deadly weapon on Jakka OLA
at San Pedro, was the next to appear.
He pleaded not guilty and must re-
main in Jail until November 16, the
next open date for trial.
SENT TO FOLSOM
f. P. Cassidy, confessed burglar, an
Englishman by birth, a graduate or
the New England Conservatory OF
Music at Boston, q bandmaster by
profession and a deserter from the
United States navy, was taken into
the room for sentence. He had asked
for probation, but the judge denied his
= application and sentenced him to serve
FIVE years in the penitentiary at Fol-
som. He entered the storeroom or
Henry L. Kohn after having deserted
from the navy at Vallejo, Cal, bring
ing south with him the wife and child
of another man.
All Crawford Watts barber, convicted
by a Jury of having committed
statutory offense, was given a peniten-
tiary sentence of ten years in San
Quentin prison, which he preferred TO
FOLSOM, on account of the former be-
ing cooler He is 81 years old, and II
was because of his age that the light
sentence was passed. as he might nave
been sentenced for life. -
When the sentence was imposed he
leaned forward with a hand to an ear,
as he is slightly deaf. Even with that
aid to hearing he could not catch the
Judges words and asked them to be
repeated Then he asked the court re-
porter again, and when the fun sig
nifcanCe of the sentence was prought
to his mind, he staggered back to
iail. He has a wife, aged and afflicted
with heart trouble, who is expected TO
become a county charge because OF
his crime. as now he cannot support
her. s
of a crime similar to that of the whlte
man who bears the same name ap-
peared for sentence, but at the request
of his attorney the matter was con-
tinued until August 15.
George Heriklades, fortune teller,
charged with failure to provide Tor ms
wife and child was placed upon pro-
hation for two years after ne hao
promised to mend his ways. His long
curly black hair. fierce mustachios ana
half-wild eyes made quite sensation
in court. -
s. Fl Crowther, an English remit
tance man, whose monthly allowance
always is soon expended, was SEN
fenced to serve one year in FOLSOM
He committed burglary at the nome
of G. M. Sabean and was given pro-
bation when he confessed and told OF
his troubles in finding employment to
add funds to his remittanceS. Re
Gently he went to San Francisco where
he got into trouble, was jailed and
sent back here.
Mrs. Stella Douglas, colored, who,
with Christine Woods also negress
and now in the penitentiary. was
placed upon probation for three years
two years ago, after they had robbed
white man of a gold watch, was up
before the court, charged with violating
her parole by becoming an inmate or
a disorderly house.
When she was placed upon proba-
ton she said she wanted to be mar
ried, and the court asked her about
1t yesterday. She said 1t was all right
and denied all accusations against her
in the way of violating her marriage
VOWS. An attorney was appointed for
her and her case will come up again
August Is.
The only case in which trouble was
ended was that of the habeas corpus
proceedings over Katie Emily Spencer,
II years old, whose divorced parents,
Henry G. and Ruth ]. Spencer, have
become reconciled and have settled
their troubles out of court.
Young Vale was much affected by
the court proceedings and promised the
court to observe every probation OBJ
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