Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-17
Cassidy GIVEN TEN YEARS
Judge Woodruff Impuss Penall !
Upon Embedding Clerk.
TAKEN AT ONCE TO THE TRAIN
Prisoners Sentence Deferred Few
Hours SO He VIII Not spend
Any Time in Council
Bluff Jail.

A. W. Cassidy former city clerk Of
Council Bluffs, was given an indeter-
inmate sentence Of ten years in the state
prison at Fort Madison and was required
to pay a fine Of the fun amount Of his
shortage. This however. Is only the
amount recounted In the indictment,
which does not include 81 600 OF money
appropriated belonging 10 the superior
court and classed as county funds
Casady was not sentenced at the hour
set on Saturday. 100 o'clock. but just
before the departure Of the Burlington
veyed him to the penitentiary.
Casady had expressed a horror Of be-
ing locked up in a Jail and made an
earnest plea TO be permitted TO escape H.
Neither the court nor the county attor-
ney saw any reason to deny the request
and II was granted. II is said that
Casady feared being locked in the local
jail for the reason that he had been told
a session OF the prisoners kangaroo
court had been arranged for his bene-
TT and that he would have had good
cause 20 remember even an hour within
the walls of the gloomy structure
In anticipation Of the sentence the
court room was filled with people long
before 1880 o'clock arrived and when
word was quietly passed around that
sentence would not be imposed until
late In the afternoon the crowd thinned
out, but many remained TO the end.
| Cassidy stood before Judge Woodruff
without a tremor. His eyes we're bent
upon the floor during the greater part
Of the ordeal, although he gazed at the
Judge in a frank and open manner dur
ing the moment when sentence was
spoken.
Judge Woodruff wasted no words. He
merely stated the case and asked the
condemned man If he had anything to
say An almost inaudible negative reply
was returned.
THE sentence of the court is that you
be taken TO the penitentiary at Fort
Madison and confened at hard labor for
an indeterminate period Of not more than
ten years, and that you be fined the full
amount OF the embezzlement specified In
the indictment, ss.2566S, and the costs OF
the prosecution. taxed at SIS"
Emmett FINLEY. counsel for Cassidy. stood
by his side. None OF his relatives was
present in the court room or the build
ing. His father-in.law. Lucius Wells. ar
rived thirty minutes after sentence was
pronounced and found Cassidy in Sheriff
McCaffery's office, where he remained
until time to take the Burlington train
at 6:S. The doors were locked and the
last hours in the town where he was
born and had spent forty years of his
life were spent In comparative privacy,
Cassidy pade his wife and son adieu al
his home shortly before I o'clock but
they we're given permission to see him
again AZ the sheriffs office.
casady's shortage was d.eoo greater
than the amount Of his fine but the bal
ance was represented in money appro-
priated belonging 10 the superior court
The petition asking for the recommends.
ton OF clemency by the court and county
attorney was not presented. This will
make II impossible for the board Of pa
role TO act until after one year Of the
sentence has been served.