Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-29
LAUGH At JUDGE
COST PRISONER
AL0NGER TERM
contemptuous Robber Not So
Jaunty After Four Years
Are Added.

Sentenced to State prison for four
and a half years. Frederick Seipe,
alias Weber, self-confessed hold
up" man, laughed at Judge Osborne
in the Court of Quarter Sessions last
night. The laugh cost him just four
and a half years more OF his freedom,
for the judge called him back and
doubled his sentence by fixing pun
ishment on charge on which he had
originally suspended sentence.
Calvin ]. Mummert, who was i'm
plicated in a series of tea store rob
berries with Seipe, was sent to the
Railway Reformatory 1t was his
first offense, and he got off with a
lighter punishment than his compan-
ion, who had been to State prison be-
fore. Both men admitted their guilt
to two robberies.
As Judge Osborne pronounced. sem
tence of not less than four and a
half years nor more than seven,
Seipe smiled half sneeringly. and as
he got down from the prisoners dock
laughed outright. When he was
called back at the courts direction
the laugh had died away.
Instead of suspendings sentence on
you on the second charge" said the
l., 1
prison for not less than four and a
half nor more than seven years. the
term to begin when you have served
your sentence on the first charge"
Thus his punishment will be not
less than nine nor more than four
teen years.
Court Active Until Midnight.
Probably the longest session ever
held by a county court was that held
yesterday by Judge Osborne. in the
Court of Quarter Sessions. Court
adjourned shortly before midnight
last night after being in session for
more than thirteen hours.
Sentences on nearly two score of
law violators were imposed by the
court at the end of the long day
During the day the offenders, their
relatives and friends were heard by
the court and their pleas taken into
consideration before punishment was
meted out.
1t was long after midnight before
the court attendants got the pris-
oners back to the county Jail ana
safely into their cells. Warden Rich
ard McGuiness was becoming worried
about his charges, who had never
been out so late before, when the
first auto load arrived eand set his
mind at ease.
Seipe and Mummert, the "hold-up"
men, became acquainted during the
strike at Roosevelt, where both
worked as deputy sheriffs. After the
shooting of some of the strikers and
the arrest OF the deputies they left
Roosevelt and came to Newark. Then
started the series of robberies that
baffled the police until Samuel Seid,
manager of the Belmont avenue
grocery store, was held up and
robbed. on Runyon street. Seipe was
arrested near the scene Of the hold
up, and Mummert was taken into
custody a few days later. n
According to the stories told BY the
/ men. they both hit Seid over the head
with the butt end of their revolvers,
qne of the revolvers going off from
the force of the blow. From the time
of his arrest, Seipe has assumed an
air of bravado, and even while he was
being examined by the court before
sentence was fixed. he seemed not to
care whether he got year or twenty.
Mrs. Eugenia Edwards. who
pleaded non vult to forging the name
of an Arlington man to two checks
and to obtaining money >under false
pretenses, was sent to the Women's s
Reformatory at Clinton. Mrs. Ma
thilda Diehl, who rjeaded guilty to a
similar charge, was also sent to the
reformatory. Rosie Di Rosa, who was
convicted of perjury by jury last
week. was the third woman to go to
Clinton,
Patrick McKeon, accused Of assault
and battery, was given an eighteen
months term in the penitentiary.
Mattio DeSantis, for receiving goods
stolen from the Lackawanna railroad
was sentenced to the same instit dt,on
to serve six months and pay a fine of
$3.50. Philip June, convicted of keep
ing a disorderly house at 166 Academy
street, was given six months, while
Mrs. Helen Solomon, who was con-
victed with him, was sent to State
prison for not less than two nor moro
than three years.
On Probation.
Those placed on probation and their
offenses were: Gaetano Armlno, as
sault and battery; William O'Connor.
desertion; Adele Johnson. larceny;
Warren Osborne. larceny; Franklin
Twibiil, a statutory offense; Umberto
vezzoso, assault and battery; Harry
Gaines, burglary; Frank Calabrese,
receiving; George Donovan, desertion:
Henry Tonquin, lewdness; George
White, forgery and uttering; John
Borofsky, assault and battery; Ray
Conover, larceny; Kayzton Maratha,
assault and battery; Vincent Stepona-
vicze, assault and battery, and Vladi-
sky Wazchuik, burglary.