The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-26
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/ ANEW fORCONv|CTS
MAKES THIRD EFFORT TO GET
YOUTHS WANTED FOR
MURDER.

MURDER.
Renewed efforts were made yester-
day by the Reading, Pennsylvania, au-
liberties, to get possession of the four
youths now in the Virginia State
Prison for highway robbery, who ter
rorized Reading and vicinity for days
| in November, 1911, not leaving the
State until they had capped the eli
max of their depredations with muir
der.
! The youths, after a series Of rob-
berries. eliminating in murder in open
daylight on the streets of Reading,
came southwark, robbipg two men on
1.-The streets If Baltimore; A. w. Har-
man, in Richmond, and Charles
Brown on the outskirts OF Petersburg.
1T was THIS last crime that proved
their undoirg, the Petersburg police
succeeding in arresting them and the
Hastings Court two days later sentenc-
Ing them to twelve years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Made Request Of Mann.
/ At once the Pennsylvania suthori-
ties requested Governor Mann to
pardon the bandits, so that they
might be evtradited and tried in
Berks County. that State, for murder.
! The youths who. at the time of their
Governor Stuart's inauguration the
same request was made of him, only
I to meet with a second refusal. Now a
third attempt is being made.
Harvey r. Henley. district attorney
for Berks County, in which Reading
/ is located. and Harry ID. Schaeffer.
district attorney at the time Of the
murder called at the Governors Of
flee yesterday with their request ror a
pardon. Secretary Forward told them
/ that he would repeat what they had
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letter over to him, upon his return to
his office in a day on two. The men
/ then went back to Reading.
! The youths who at the time of their
outbreak. ranged from fifteen to nine
teen years of age, are:
! John Lutz. alias j. l.. Brown.
Chester Lewzewsk!, alias James Davis !:
Joseph l.. Cary, and William Schultz,
alias Charles c. Williams. Winsey,
Who is charged with flring the shot
that killed Gordon Kaufman, a
Reading baker. on November 10. is
claimed by the attorneys to have
signed confession in the penitentiary
yesterday.
Series of Depredauons.
! The short career OF these youths
reads like yellow novel OF the yell
I lowest type. They began on Novem-
he by holding UP and robbing the
landlord OF a Reading suburban hotel.
The following day they performed the
same operation at Ii nearby hotel and
two days later they held up and rob-
/ bed pedestrian on Spruce Street.
Reading. Then followed almost a
week OF inactivity. Friday. Novem~
Der To- they broke loose again with a
vengeance. EerIy that morning they
entered the bakery of Gordon Kauf-
mann and tirding only his wife pres
ent, demanded cakes and pies Being
supplied with these they refused to
make payment and left the store.
AIRS, Kaufman called her husband.
who coming up from the basement.
ran out onto the sidewalk. As he
emerged one CT the youths said to be
Wlnsey, fired point blank from few
feet distant, killing the man fnsta mt
!y
The four disappeared. making fqs
Maryland. Landing in Baltimore,
they held UP two men in that city the
! Come TO Virginia.
Then then came TO Virginia. A. w.
Hartman was their first victim here.
! he being held up ON the streets Tues
/ 6ay, November II. They then board
eu a Petersburg irterurban street car.
and hitting the Cockade City. aignal-
/ ICED their appearance by holding un
land robhing Charles @. Brown at the
!Appomattox end Of Bishops Bridge,
within easy sight Of the Union Sta
ton,
! Brown. WHO was ON his way home
from work. telephoned TO the police n
i few minutes later and the search be-
gan. The bandits doubled back TO
Richmond, catching a nearby electric
CIR and then boarded southbound
\ Atlantic Coast Line train. unaware. II
seems, that II would take them
through Petersburg. They were
recognized ct the Petersburg station
OF the A. {. l., from the description
given by Mr.. Brown and Chief Rag
/ land wired ahead to have them ar
rested at the next stop. This was
done, and On Thursday they were
brought back to Petersburg FRIDAY
morning they were In Police Court
land Saturday morning they We're tried
lin the Hastings Court. Judge Mullen
presiding. and sentenced to twelve
years IN the renitentiary.
Three Years Conc.
There they have served three years.
1 Davis. who assisted a guard to aueii
an ohstreperous negro convict. hav-
ing his sentence comnauted TO ten
years.
| The Reading authorities informed
1.-THE Governor in their petition for a
pardon. that the widow OF the muir
eered man is the only eyewitness OF
the crime and they want the men re-
LEASED and extradited before she. who
| is old and much broken in health.
dies
! The Governor will act in few
days
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