Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-12
IS MONTHS
IN PEN INSTEAD
Of PROBATION
Sentencing of Jaunty Young
Man Not Mere Formally
He Expected.

George Z. Ryan, q tall, well-dressed
young man, stood before Judge Thomas
A. Davis for sentence this morning on
a charge of stealing a diamond ring
yauled at $3.50 from George j. Busch, a
Jeweier, at 81 Springfield avenue.
Ryan wore a jaunty air as he stepped
into the prisoners dock. He seemed to
regard the sentence about to be i'm
posed on him as a mere matter of
form.
But he got a rude awakening in q
moment, as Judge Davis sternly said
ID him: Ryan, at the time you pleaded
guilty to the charge gainst you I
withheld sentence on statement
that you would make resri.@ for the
value of h ring"
Continuing Judge Davis now spoke
in most emphatic terms. you failed
TO do so. I have been informed that,
the money has been raised by friends
OF yours n Is held in some place and
that 1t win be delivered to the jeweler
in case I release you On probation.
No Probation for Him.
This court does not intend to be a
party to any such proceedings and the
sentence is that you be confined to the
p~enitentiary at Caldwell for the term
of eighteen months"
Ryan's jaupty air left him that in
slant and with a despairing glance
around the court room he went back
to the bull pen to await transportation
to Caldwell.
Five Years for Burglar.
Samuel Shelton, who, with Samuel
Luton, both negroes, was arrested asst
August on a charge of burglarizing the
residence of Bishop Edward S. Lines.
at q Washington street. and that Of
Henry A. Swami, at 81 New street,
were up for sentence. In sentencing
Shelton Judge Davis said: Your rec
ord is a long m and you deserve no
mercy al the hands of this or any other
court. You will be confined in the
State prison at Trenton for the period
Of five years."
Luton, who is only IL years old, got
of easier, largely due to the interven-
ton of Bishop Lines rho at the time
of the trial expressed is opinion that
the lad had been led into bad company
and would reform II given a chance.
He was sent to the Railway Reforma-
tory.
The burglaries, which took place on
August IL and 81 last, netted almost
81. 900 for Shelton, s415.2 rs in loot being
taken from the Swami residence, while
from Bishop Lines's house property
valued at s661-25 was secured. It de-
veloped at the trial that Shelton got
practically all of the loot, most of which
was recovered when he was arrested in
New York City a week after the Lines
robbery.
State prison sentences were also
given to Robert Gibson, negro, con-
victed of assault and battery on a
young colored girl. who got three years
at Trenton; to Pasquale Petite, con-
victed of adultery. who also got three
years, and to Theodore Dillon. who has
a long record as a burglar. Dillon will
spend three years at Trenton, while
Edward O'Brien. his partner, who has
no criminal record, got Off with being
sent to the Railway reformatory.
Rufus Jones, a negro, will spend
nine months in the Caldwell peniten-
tiary for cutting another negro with a
knife during a saloon row, while Will
lam Bertholf, also a negro, will spend
eighteen months at the same institu-
ton for passing four forged checks.
the aggregate amount being about 500.
William Wessinger, who first stole
money from an employer named Rice
and later from a man named Gross
holtz. who had befriended him after
his first trouble, will nave six months
to think things over at Caldwell.
Ellen Nagel, a white woman, who
pleaded non vult on a charge of keep
ing a d~isorderly house, was let off oil
probation and must pay a fine of twen-
ty-1ve cents a week for three years.
In sentencing this woman, Judge
Davis called attention to the fact that
several years ago she had been con-
victed on the same kind of q charge.
Judge Davis also stated that reputable
physicians had informed him that the
woman was in a bad way physically,
as she is suffering from consumption,
and for that reason he did not feel like
imposing a prison sentence on her at
this time.