The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-04-28
SHORT Term FOR MEN
Who ROBBED A STORE

Three prisoners at the county Jail
received their sentences this fore
noon, and another entered plea OF
guilty. T. P. Farrell and Thomas
Burns, who were allowed to plead to
the charge of grand larceny in. the
second degree yesterday, although ar
rested on the charge of grand lar.
ceny in the first degree, for the theft
cloth from M. o. Sundt's store, were
each sentenced to serve two and a
half years in the Saltwater peniten.
tiary. Harry Wilson, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of burglary in
the third degree, for beaking into
Conner Jones store, was given an in
determinate sentence to the state re-
formatory at st. Cloud. c.. H. Stickles
entered plea of guilty to the charge
of grand larceny in the second de-
gree, in the theft of wearing apparel
and suit case from the residence
of Herman Schmidt, at the st. Paul
house.
Farrell Was Up First.
Farrell was up first, and had little
to say why sentence should not be
pronounced. County Attorney Schmitt
said that it seemed to him that the
clemency of the law had already
been extended in the defendants be.
ing allowed to plead to the lesser
IF nriv nho %hA
was guilty of larceny, it also follow
ed that he was guilty of burglary.
Farrell gave his age as forty-two,
and said that he had lived at various
points in Minnesota for some years,
and had done farm work, mostly, and
had no trade
Judge Pau said that he believed
that the courts should extend GER
tain degree of clemency. If the crime
was to be committed now instead Of
when it was. it would come under
the new law and it would be taken
out of the hands of the court to
fix the term of Imprisonment, that
being left to the state pardon board,
hereafter.
Burns said that he is thirty-six
years of age, and that he has a
mother in Minneapolis who is de-
pendent upon him for support. and
also an invalid sister. He is a la
borer and has no trade
What the Court Said.
The court said that no one could
be sentenced to saltwater without
there being hardship for someone,
and the defendant could now see the
consequences of his acts, such as
stealing, burglarizing,, etc. one.
ever built himself up by getting prop.
erty dishonesty. 1t dragged one
down, and the pay for, one honest
days work was worth more to man
than all that he could pilfer. The
court would be glad to allow the de-
PENDANT to be on the outside, where
he could assist his mother, if he
was convinced that he had been do.
ing this and that he would do SO,
and in case the law permitted. But
according to all the information that
he had gained he was going to give
the defendant too light a sentence.
and one that might leave him open
to censure.
Wilson lie Seventeen.
Wilson said that he is seventeen
years old, and that his parents re-
side in North Dakota, that he was
never in trouble before, has no trade,
but has been doing any work that
offered. He has spent the past six
months i'm Mankato.
The court gave Wilson some splen.
did advice on the opportunities be-
fore young men, and how it is bet
ter to be honest, and how those older
in crime are more liable to con-
tinue to commit crimes. He would
send him to point where he would
have chance to learn a useful
trade that would put him in better
shape to earn living than he had
ever been in.
Stickles had no attorney, and the
court appointed r. F. Hunt, who also
appeared for the three other pris-
oners. Judge Pau said that he would
sentence Stickles at 10 a. m. tomor-
row.