New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-01
PRISON FOR RE|CHMANN
Carnegie Trust President to
Serve Four and a Half Months.
is LOCKED IN THE T0MBS
After Sentence Is Imposed Law
yer Tries to- Get Stay, but Is
Delayed Until Monday.


tiary comprises the punishment meted out
Yesterday morning by Justice vernon NJ
Davis to Joseph b. Reichmann, FORMER
' president OF the Carnegie Trust company
Justice Davis postponed commitment I'M
| III Wednesday. however, To give the con-
victed banker time to apply for certn'-
cate of reasonable doubt.
Stephen { G. Baldwin. Reichmann's At
torney, did everything in his power to get
such certificate yesterday afternoon, pn'
failed. and at SIS o'clock his client ac-
, companed by Deputy Sheriff John r.
Breitenbach. went over the Bridge or signs
into the Tombs. where he will remain I'M
till Monday at least.
Following the imposition Of sentence
Justice Davis had committed Reichmann
to the custody Of the deputy sheriff untiI
5 o'clock, unless definite action on the APP
| plication for a certificate Of reasonable
doubt should be had before that hour.
After that Bretenbach could still nave
kept his prisoner out OF the Tombs, but
at his own risk When Mr.. Baldwin left
his client at AIS o'clock. saying nothing
more could be done for him, Mr.. Reich
mann remarked:
Nobody need worry about mo. If every
one worried as little about this case as
I do there wouldn't be any headacpes
over It,"
When the former bank president, seated
because Of the partial paralysis of his
legs. was arraigned At the bar in tho
morning. Mr.. Baldwin moved an arrest
Of judgment on the grounds that the court
had no jurisdiction in the case and that
the indictment did not charge facts sum-
Gent to constitute a crime. Justice DAVIS
denied the motion and asked:
us the defendant ready for sentence?
He is" said Mr.. Baldwin, who then re-
minded the court that Mr.. Reichmann had
not proflted penny out Of the Carnegie
Trust transactions
IT do not regard tho defendant as a
| criminal with criminal Intentions said
tho court although he committed p Grim
| ina act. and ! do not believe the jury 50
regarded him But ! feel that. although
there are many extenustng circum'
stances. the crime Of which he is convicted
demands a prison sentence. The fact that
he did not take the stand and add per
jury TO his offences weighs Ereatly with
the court IN imposing sentence
He then pronounced tho sentence, which
Reichmsnn received calmly
A process server from the Federal
Building served a paper on Reichmann IN
| the corridor just before court opened. II
vas a summons I'm the bankruptcy pro-
ceedings instituted against him by the
same creditors who filed petitions against
William 7. Cummins, Martin J. Condor
and Charles Arthur Moore. ir. Reichnann
received IL with rho remark.
This Is what comes of rIedginS my
own credit 10 obtain money 10 aid the
Carnegie Trust Company"
When asked after sentence had been
passed, n he had contemplated turning
states evidence against Cummins and
Charles II. Hyde. former city Chamberlain
| She prisoner said:
II have lived thirty-siS Years without
asking charity or pittance from any
| body and I don't propose TO begin now.
| Several months ago at the request Of the
District Attorney saw Robin. Robin
suggested that II would be an easy mat
ter for us 10 frame up q story that would
let us go free and secure the conviction
NJ others ] told him he ought 10 he
| torn to pieces"
| Mr.. Baldwin FASTENED 10 iha County
Courthouse where ne obtained from JUS
| tice Erlanger an order on the District At
torney To show cause why certiacats ot
| reasonable doubt should not be granted "a
! his client The order was returnabe IN
the afternoon before Justice Page. In Part
| 7. but Justice Page adjourned the hearing
until Monday because District ATTORNEY
4
dict justified such certificate and he
cause the record of the trial had not yet
been completely transcribed. Reichmann'
| friends fear that he will have 10 stay in
the Tombs at least until Wednesday, since
Justice Page is expected TO reserve deci-
sion after the Monday hearing and Tues