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MAPES
Failed To Be Good Under
Suspended Sentence
So Judge WiCkham Takes
A Hand In The Case
And Sends The Man To The
State ReformatOry
MapeS Was Arrested By
Police In This City
Where Court Learned He
Was Acting Badly
Mansfield News)

There was something little I'M
usual doing in Richland common
pleas court Thursday, when an in
dividual, who answers to the name OF
Roy Mapes, was brought before Judge
Wickham, of Delaware, and shunted
out to the state reformatory in short
order Some time ago Mr.. Mapes was
arrested in connection with one Glenn
Paxton on the charge of highway rob
berry committed on an OLD man named
Moree. Both Paxton and Mapes, who
were unsavory individuals from away
back, We're indicted by the RichIand
county grand jury Mapes turned
states evidence against his pal Glenn
Paxton and it was largely through his
evidence that Paxton was convicted
Judge Wickham, OF Delaware, came
here to try the Paxton and Mapes
highway robbery cases along with the
balance of the criminal docket at that
time. Paxton was sent up to the Ohio
penitentiary for ten years as the pen
Wickham dealt gently with him, SEN
fencing him to the Ohio State reforma-
tory and then suspending the SEN
tence When Judge Wickham sus-
pended the sentence of Mapes it was
on certain conditions such as keeping
himself out, of the saloons and not
being arrested or giving the police
any trouble no matter where he was.
Mapes promised to do all of this and
many times when court imposes
such conditions, that is about the last
of it, as no matter how much the
court would like to follow things up
and keep track of what is doing, there
are new cases of criminal nature
coming up constantly and unless the
police are wise to the conditions and
report the conduct of bad men under
suspended sentence, the court prob
ably never hears Of it again or at
least until the same fellow is brought
into some court on some other charge.
For some reason the Mapes case
was somewhat different. AS stated,
Judge Wickham, the judge who gave
Paxton ten years and Mapas a sus-
pended sentence to the reformatory,
lives in Delaware. After getting out
of Jail, Mr.. Mapes returned to his
former haunts down near Mt. Vernon.
1t Is stated that he cut up lot of
bad capers and gave the police con-
siderable trouble. In some way Judge
Wickham learned of Mapes conduct
ter and incidentally assist the Mt. Yer
non and other police departments in
their business. When Judge Wick
ham became satisfied that Roy Mapes
was doing anything but carrying out
his promise to behave himself, Judge
Wickham sent an order here to Sher-
iff Carroll to go down to Mt. Vernon,
arrest Mr.. Mapes and put him in the
Richland county Jail. Just as soon as
Judge Wickham ascertained that
Mapes was on the way to Mansfield
he started for the same place. Upon
the arrival of the court he went to
the court house and proceeded to fin
ish the job or rather put into execu-
tion the suspended sentence he gave
Mapes at the time Glenn Paxton was
sent to the pen for ten year term. Be
cause he failed to keep his promise to
Judge Wickham, Mapes will now board
at the Ohio reformatory for an indef.
inite period of time.