The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-21

IL would not have been Of any avail
to NO into a lengthy trial when the
men were guilty ana were willing To
admit their guilt that they might be
gin serving their sentences at the
earliest time.
As matters stand now. the prison
ers have "swapped ten years of their
lives for si6,b00, that being the
amount OF loot not yet recovered by
the inspectors. The latter have not
admitted defeat at the hands OF the
shrcwd criminals, but are still main
tanning the closest watch for the re-
mainder of the SS6.295,54 in stamps,
cash and certified checks which the
-rohhers- -akllf44lN- %Ile44t4y- and sue
cessfully stole from the ancient, thin
deprad- ss fe-4Ft-t4s+4 -tt-tfft..FaF y post
Office on March %.
Under the Law II q prisoner who has
been sentenced to pay II fine after
serving term Of years in a Federal
prison. pleads that he Is "a pauper
and II Unable to -pay-tA e-4aeflet Ia
Is released This has been done III
many instances. perhaps majority.
and even in cases Of bank presidents
and wealthy robbers.
Answered to Real Names
The postoffice robbers answered TO
the names Of Eddie Fay and Richard
Harris. Police r,,sords in almost every
city Of any size in this county show
that for more than fifteen years they
have been engaged in blowing safes.
iootng postotfices and robbing banks.
Books found in their possession after
their arrest showed that they had
planned long series of bank and
postoftice robberies in the South and
had maps and drawings of the streets,
houses and alleys contiguous to the
Institutions they planned plundering.
There Seems every reason for believ
Ing they are Eddie Fay and Richard
Harris.
Fay h. known to be worth about
100000 or 100000. lie has ii hand
some home In Chicago where IT do.r
not make much difference whether u
| man IL Il thief or not. no long as he
has the money. In addition to his
| residence worth many thousands Of
dollars. Fay has long string of
thoroughbred race horses, which he
mas raced with great success on the
| Pacific coast and in the central West.
He also has large stock holdings. and
is said to be the operator of a race
track pool room in Chicago. 1t would
seem now that Fay would be com
pc He'd to pay the $4,000 fine imposed
upon him, but he can evade payment
| persons. He ana Harris are further
safeguarded from serving more than
ten years ia the Federal prison by
, the fact that the statutes do not pro-
! vide any additional confinement II
! fines are not paid. 1t is therefore eX-
tremely unlikely that either of the
rln Will serve more time than seven
and 81 half years in the Atlanta peni-
! Tertiary, as about two years and a
! hli will be taken off for good be-
havior. Fay and Harris, as was
/ demonstrated at the Henrico jail
( seem to know how to be on their good
| behavior when confronted with insur-
/ mountable circumstances, and as the
first man has yet to escape from the
Atlanta prison. 1t TX not likely that
they will be heard from in criminal
way before December, 1917.
Immediately after the prisoners en-
tered the court room Judge Waddil
ordered the Jury called.
Attorney Smith asked that this he
postponed to allow him time TO with.
draw tho plea OF not guilty entered
for the prisoners by the court and file
a demurrer TO the Indictment and 9
motion to quash.
Asked If he had any ground OF
reason for this. MIR Smith replied IT
the negative, Judge Lewis opposed
the postponcment saying the prison
ers had been offered opportunity Last
week to file such motions. but did mo-
avail themselves of It.
Judge Waddiil overruled MIR
Smiths motions and then asked if tht
attorney wished to say anything with
regard TO the election OF the prison
ers rs to whether they desired 10 b,
tried Jointly separately. Mr.. SMITH
aatd he appreciated Judge Waddill's
a a,
criminal cases, but he would like &
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