The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-15
HOWE SENTENCED
GETS 500 FINE AND COSTS OF
PROSECUTION IN WAYNE COUN-
TY-LIQUOR LICENSES ALL
GRANTED BUT THREE.

Il-IlQOOh hISbNoIDo hIII
GRANTED BUT THREE.
March term of Wayne county
court was convened Monday, at 2
p. m. Judge Alonzo T. Searle pre-
sided.
The roll of traverse jurors was
called and these were excused:
Charles Boos, Texas; Geo. G.. Gay
lord, Clinton; William S. Hartle,
Sr., Palmyra; Alfred F. Kimble,
Hawley; j. F. Mcdonnell, Cherry
Ridge; Henry Stengle, Texas; Chas.
Schelbert, Dreher.
The following accounts were pre-
sented and confirmed nisi:
Accounts in estates of Annetta
Shaffer, Lake; Margaret Fasshauer,
Texas; Electa X. Bassett, Honesdale;
H. K. Stone, Honesdale; George S.
Purdy, Honesdale; Porter Kennedy,
Mount Pleasant; w. Brace Keeney,
Preston.
Appraisements of $500 were made
to widows of S. T. Palmer, Hawley:
personal estate; John l.. Burcher,
Honesdale: personal estate; Andrew
Bayer, Paupack: personal estate.
The calendar was called. Judge
Searle announced that sickness would
pl CNChI uuSC Vial lCo O plCoJ
Stroudsburg, from presiding at sew
eral cases this week, but that Judge
Ralph B. Little, Montrose, would
come in his place.
1t was stated by the Court that
the case of Anna May Fives versus
the Auto Transportation Company
had been settled.
Licenses Granted.
All the applications for liquor Ii
censes, the bonds having been ap-
proved, were granted, with the eX-
ception of three, against which COM
plants had been filed. Tuesday,
March 81, was set by the Court for
the arguing of the complaints
against the applications of Frank
Mang, Texas; Warner Knapp, Pres
ton; Anthony Yeager, Preston, all
of whom asked for hotel licenses.
The order set for the hearings on
that date is: 8 a. m, Knapp;
Yeager; p. m. Mang.
Carl Howe Sentenced.
At 2:50 p. m, District Attorney
NJ. e. Simons moved that Carl Howe
be sentenced.
Attorney r. II. Holgate, Esq,
Scranton, made an eloquent and
impassioned plea for mercy to be
shown his client, who was tried and
found guilty of statutory offense,
on the charge of Madeline Paterson,
La Plume, at special term of court,
February, on change of venue
from Lackawanna county, and rec
ommended by the jury to the mercy
of the Court. THE case of Carl
Howe" he said, lis without paral-
lei in the history of the criminal
jurisdiction of Pennsylvania" He
recited the history of the three trials,
convictions and recommendations to
mercy move had in the Courts of
Lackawanna, where, according to
Holgate, 1.-The extreme mercy of the
court was always twelve years"
The Supreme Court, he said, had
thrice reversed the decision of the
lower courts. Carl Howe had been
compelled however to spend large
sums of money in having his case
appealed to the higher courts. The
printing of the paper book" alone
in the first appeal cost $310. 1T
has cost Howe every dollar he hau
to defend himself and he is $500
in debt" In conclusion he plead
ed for the extension of the mercy
we shall all be compelled to ask
when the scenes of this fife change
District Attorney M. E. Simons
briefly replied to what he character
lied as the eloquent argument by
the defendants attorney. "When a
jury of Lackawanna county, he
said, three times decided he was
guilty of the crime, and afterwards,
he comes over here and gets a light
er verdict, we think the young man
is extremely fortunate and the Com
monwealth does not ask for the ex-
treme penalty, but joints in the re-
quest for mercy.
Judge Searle's Charge.
| Before sentencing the defendant
Judge Searle said: You have been
convicted in this court. The jury
recommends you to the mercy OF
the court. We might sentence you
to pay all the costs of the three
| former trials. The Court however
does not feel disposed to sentence
you to pay all the costs of trials
where reversal was had, and we
shall not impose them upon you
The sentence of the court is that
you, Carl Howe, pay the costs OF
prosecution in Wayne county only
that you pay a 500 fine, and that
you give security for the payment
of the same within thirty days"
The rest of the afternoon session
was devoted to the case of the Com.
monwealth versus Warren Simpson
charged with the larceny of a horse
These jurors were selected to try
the case: Oliver Howell, Scott;
Frank Black, Lake; Henry Knorr
Oregon; Yens Lilholt, Damascus; S
d. Labarr, Preston; Ira e. Bryant
Dyberry; j. w. Hause, Dreher;
Robert Halter, Sterling; H. P. Deck
Honesdale; Geo. Erik, Texas; Leslie
Cease, South Canaan; Alonzo Will.
liamS Parlin