Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-06-15
CRAIG IS GIVEN
FORTY YEARS
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been Craigs boss telling him the dis
counts he was to give a prospective
customer, for all that Craig seemed to
care.
Craig stepped down from the dock
and disappeared through the doorway
leading to the prison pens as coolly
as he usually passed in and out dur
ing his trial. He seemed to expect at
least twenty years for his crime and
showed no surprise wlfen that was
the sentence pronounced by the judge
in both cases. But when the court
added the word 'consecutively'
Craig's eyes blinked a moment, and
looked straight at the judge. 1t had
given him a little Jolt, evidently, but
he quickly recovered and from his
manner as he walked back to his cell
he might have been saying well,
forty isn't much worse than twenty
to me-"
Judge Severe In Remarks.
Craig was the last of twenty or
more prisoners to be sentenced by
Judge Martin. AS he was led to the
dock two guards stood on either side
of him.
Two separate juries convicted yol
of murder in the second degree,
Judge Martin told Craig. THESE
juries evidently dlsregarded youi
story of how the murders occurred
| Their verdicts were fully and COM
pletely justified by the testimony and
| il would seem as If the verdicts had
! been more than second degree they
would have been justified.
There was no excuse for shooting
! Hetty Reeve and certainly none for
shooting Mrs. Clark. The court fully
understands the sentence which 1t II
| about to impose means practically
| life imprisonment and the court be-
| lieves it is an eminently proper SEN
tence to be imposed in your case.
Under the circumstances of these
two murders, of two women, the court
! feels there Is no reason whatever
that any clemency should be exer-
cised. If 1t should be in your case it
has already been exercised by the
two juries that found you guilty in
the second degree. The sentence OF
the court is that fixed by statute as
the limit for second degree murder
not less than twenty nor more than
| thirty years in each case, the terms
to run consecutively.
The sentence is said to be the
longest, outside of actual life inn
prisonment, ever imposed in this
| State.
| other Sentences Imposed.
Among the other sentences imposed
we're: Antonio Coppola, assault ano
| battery, eighteen months in the peni-
| tertiary; David A. Scbaefer, keeping
! a disorderly house, nine months In
| the penitentiary; Albin Berthal
carrying indecent publications. SIX
months in the penitentiary; Richard
| Mccain, for stealing lead pipe from
houses, twelve months in the peni-
tentiary; Edward Mccain and Johr
| Cremer, for the same offense, Rah-
way Reformatory.
Palo D'Innocenzio. convicted oi
receiving stolen goods. was fined
| $3.50 and costs, and Frank Beck, fol-
violating his probation twice, was
given twelve months in the peniten'
! tiary. The judge said his patience
was exhausted in Beck's case, be.
cause he had taken the pledge tC
refrain from drinking on several diff
ferent occasions, and each time hat
broken it.
The court put David j. Scott OF
probation at the request of his wife
| the judge said, and against thu
courts own judgment. Scott was ac
cused of deserting his family.
Sentence of William II. Ruffhead
| accused of embezzlement, was put of
| until his sentence imposed last weel
by the Federal court expires. II
placing number of offenders OF
4 probation the judge made the con
dition that they take the pledge. AL
promised to do SO.