Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
WOHLSIFFER BOY ]
IS SENTENCED TO :.
THIRTEEN YEARS
Young Criminal, Guilty as Bur-
gIar and Gun Toter, Scored
by Judge.

Charles Wohlsiffer, seventeen years
old, who was sent to State Prison
for thirteen years by Judge william
P. Martin yesterday. VIII be taken TO
Trenton within the next few days.
Wohlsiffer was a confessed burglar
and gun carrier, having pleaded non
vult to six indictments for burglary
and one for carrying concealed
weapons.
mo sympathy should be wasted on
the boy because of his age" Judge
Martin declared in pronouncing the
sentence that will keep him behind
prison walls till he is past thirty.
While thirteen years in the minimum
sentence. the youth might have to
serve as much as forty-fve years.
the maximum fixed by the court.
Wohlsiffer has been in the reforma-
tory and at the State Home for Boys.
When he was in court yesterday he
appeared cool and never fiinched
while the judge was sentencing him
for two to sen years on each of six
indictments and one to three years on
the seventh charge, the terms to run
Iconsecutively." His appearance, az
he faced the court in his neatly tall
ored suit, clean white shirt and
standing collar, was more that of
clever bank defaulter than OF a bur.
glar and gunman.
John Mcgee, who was arrested with
him and pleaded to three BURGLARY
charges, was sent to the reformatory.
Megee's home was in Pittsburgh
Wohlsiffer lived at q Waveriy ave.
nue., Newark.
Judge Martin also sent Salvatore
Gallo. twenty-four years old, to State
prison for burglary. 1t was Ga1loss
first offense and his loot was worth
only S13, but it was taken from q
woman who had to work to earn s.
week TO support herself and her
children. Because of this fact the
judge decided that Gallo should serve
not less than three and a half years
nor more than seven years in the
Trenton prison.
Gallo entered the home of Mrs.
Carrie st. John at 23s Bruce street.
it was chadged. and stole a locket
worth SO and SO in cash.
Mrs. Villa Ringlenan, found guilty
by jury last week of keeping Dis
orderly house, was committed to the
penitentiary for three months. When
she attempted to speak The Judge
he shut her off and told she had
been found guilty by twelve men aft
er fair trial. and that was all there
was to it. He went on to characterize
her defense as ridiculous when she
said she couldn't remember the
names of anyone she had done Dress
making for in the last year. She
had claimed at her trial that she was
dressmaker and made her living
that way.
but. judge let me explain. I was
sick for nearly she started TO plead
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der of the Judge to take her away.
AS two attendants led her to the
pens" she started to scream and be-
came hysterical Her daughter, who
was in the court room, tainted, but
quickly revived.
Mrs. Ringlenan charged that the
complaint was a "frame-up' to dis
credit her breach of promise suit
/ against Dr. William Johnson, of !
, William street While she is in tbs
penitentiary her suit will probably
come up for trial in the Circuit Court
Alexander Legler was sentenced tie
the Penitentiary for nine months for
escaping from the Newark street Jail
fifteen months ago. Legler was in the
Jail at that time awaiting removal to
the penitentiary to serve eighteen
months for embezzlement One day
he saw the doors of the jail opened
and he walked out. He was recap
where he served fifteen months. hav-
ing three months thrown off for good
behavior. He was released last week
and re-arrested.
In sending him back to the penis
Tertiary the judge said he blamed the
jail authorities for placing such q
great temptation in the way OF the
prisoner by leaving the doors open.
On that account the sentence was
light" he declared.
Salvatore Contola, charged with car
rying a concealed weapon, was sent
to Caldwell for six months. Albert
Van Giesen got a like sentence for
larceny.
The following were sent to the Rah-
way reformatory: Charles McKin-s
ney, larceny and receiving; James
Kinney, burglary, and William White
burglary.
Probation sentences were given thu
following: Nathan Singer, desertion;
Michael Fassano, obtaining money
under false pretenses; Marie Salinger,
same offense, and Paul r. Reamer,
larceny.