Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-01-23
FIVE GET SENTENCE
CONGESTION AT THE COUNTY
JAIL is RELIEVED
LIGHT SENTENCE EOR SICKLES
Man Who Passed Worthless Checks
at Weyerhaeuser Gets Sixty
Days

Snerlff McNally, Under-Sheriff
Swain, District Attorney Kirwan and
Thos. Baker, as a deputy, accompan-
led five of the prisoners at the
county Jail, who had been awaiting
an opportunity to go before Judge
Wickham and be sentenced to Eau
Claire Saturday, and all five are now
doing time for their misdeeds.
l.. A. Sickles, who was extradited
from Independence, Iowa, for pass
ing worthless checks at Weyerhaeu-
ser just before Christmas, got off
with the lightest sentence of the
quintet. He was given 60 days at the
county Jail for obtaining money un-
der false pretenses
Geo. K. Farr, who, until his arrest,
was the 500 Line station agent at
Tony, was sentenced to spend two
years at Waupun for embezzlement
Stanley Fihauser, who shot at
Matthew Webb at Sheldon recently,
the bullet passing through the lat
ters cap, plead guilty to shooting
with intent to kill and was sentenced
tC two years at the Green Bay re-
formatory.
Ed. Kemp, who burglarized a res
iderce here early in December, was
given a three-year sentence at Green
Bay.
Amund Nelson. of Chetek, who was
arrested in the Flambeau River Lum-
ber Co.'s warehouse recently, after
he had burglarized H. V. Curtis
confectionery store, was sentenced to
spend two years in durance at Green
Bay.
Speaking of the appearance of the
prisoners before Judge Wickham, the
Eau Claire Telegram says:
George K. Farr, charged with en-
bezzlement, drew two years at hard
labor in the state prison at Wau-
pun Farr who was agent for the
500 road at Tony, was charged with
the embezzlement of 5000 from the
corporation. Farr confessed fully the
theft and attempted to play upon
the sympathy of the court, apparent
ly, by presenting a flimsy argument
going to prove that while he did
wrong in the eyes of the law, his
act was morally right. He told of
the fact that he had tried to bring
his wife to Tony from Superior when
she was ill, but could find no quar-
ters, only over place where gaso-
line engines were operated. His un-
sound logic was to the effect that
he was forced to leave his family at
Superior and stand the expense at
both ends, which he declared he
could not do on the salary he was
receiving Farr talked in a rambling
manner and failed to convince aly-
Cne that his act was juGt;fiable. His
arguments were of a nature injurious
to his own case
Edward j. Kemp, young man "a
guilty of the charge of burglary, hav-
ing entered the home of Jacob Pet
erson at Ladysmith on the night of
Nov %, 1913. Kemp gave Pittsburg,
Pa, as his home, but claims to have
been in this section of the country
for about four months. The prisoner
frankly confessed to breGking into
the home by breaking a glass in a
window and taking number of the
family trinkets. He claims he was in
toxicated at the time and did not
realize whct he was doing. At the
time of the arrest of Kemp, the
missing articles were found on his
person. The prisoner was sentenced
to three years in the Green Bay re-
formatory but sentence was stayed
and Kemp was put in charge of the
field officer of the state board of
control on probation.