Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-27
GIVEN FOURTEEN
YEARS IN PRISON
FOR B%URGLAR|ES
John Wilkinson, key Man."
Sent to Trenton-Hughes, .
Embezzler, Sentenced.

Judge Jay Ten Eyck sentenced three
men to State prison terms today, the
longest n going to John Wilkinson,
the so-called key man" burglar, who
for six weeks kept the police depart
ment busy. Wilkinson got fourteen
years in the Trenton prison.
John Edward Hughes. the young
ticket agent of the Orange office of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad, was sentenced to spend five
years at the same place, while Domer-
leo Scala, an Italian, who, during the
course of the free-for-all fight in Or
ange on August Z last, she and killed
Angeleo A. Camposchiaro. and after
being indicted for murder pleaded
guilty to ma%nslaughter, received a
three-year sentence.
Just before Judge Ten Eyck took the
bench to pronounce sentences Hughes
wife, who had been sitting in the rear
of the room with a woman friend, COL
lapsed and tainted. She was carried
to the grand jury room by court at
tendants. When she did not recover
DR.. Edward R.. Steiner was called. He
found her in a hysterical condition, but
pCiH6 CdlILlCu uOWH WAS SellI TO
her home. She does not, as yet, know
the sentence received by her husband.
In sentencing Hughes, Judge Ten
Eyck said: Il canno find anything in
your case that would warrant me in ex-
tending the c~lemency. Your record be-
fore accepting a position with the rail-
road company was a bad one, and you
were there but a shor time when you
stole more than $500 in money" Hughes
took his sentence with a shrug of the
shoulder and did not seem in the least
disturbed.
Wilkinson likewise came in for but
scant sympathy from the judge. Will
kinson hid pleaded guilty to six
charges of entering houses in the day
time. Judge Ten Eyck sentenced him
on only two charges, these being the
theft of q sealskin coat valued at SIS
from the home of Bella Grossman. PAS
Walnut street, on March 4, and for the
theft of $65 in jewelry from the home
Gof Mary Nolan. 1872 Ferry street, on
February 2S.
Beyond Hope of Reform.
In sentencing Wilkinson. Judge Ten
Eyck called attention to the fact tina,
he already had at least six terms in
prison to his credit, having been re-
leased from the Sing Sing prison, New
York State. only last December.
You seem to be beyond all hope of
REFORM" said Judge Ten Eyck, land
for n protection of society you should
be sent to prison for as long a term as
possible. Lsentence you to seven years
on each Of the first two indict-
ments against you, the second SEN
tence not to start until the first one
Is completed"
Wilkinson looked surprised at the
f-ourteen-year sentence, but said moth
ing as he was led away.
Ryromaniac Sentenced.
} Walter Doyle, the Belleville pyro-
maniac. who made three attempts to
burn an unfinished house belonging to
Theodore ~Jerolaman, of Belleville, and
who pleaded guilty to the charge, was
sent to the Railway Reformatory, as
was Herman B. Van Giesen, alias
Charles B. Watson, who during April
and May, 1910, embezzled SIS from Ed
ward M. Sand, of Orange, who had
employed him as a collector. =
Brunch Kaminski, Paul Rutter and
John Anderson, all convicted on bur-
glary charges, will take up their resi-
dence at the Railway reformatory.
while Mary Wojicicki, convicted of
assault and battery on her husband,
was sent to the Caldwell p~enitentiary
for four months.
Jacob Bentley, an old offender in
the wife-beating line, was given a nine
months sentence at Caldwell, while
Leonard Gallieto, for a statutory Of
Tense, will spend three months at the
same institution. Anthony Lordi, who,
in a free-for-all fight during a bail
game at Bloomfield last June hit an
other man over the head with a base
ball bat, was fined SIS and the costs of
his trial.