The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-17
THREE GIVEN
 SENTENCES ID
 PEN|TENT|ARY
CALLAHAN WAKES ELOQUENT IN ARRAIGNMENT OF
 OFFICIALS.

buIIHS the past week Judge Charles E. Bunnell imposed three | penitentiary sentences on defendants in cases wherein rape or assault with intent to commit rape were the charges. The men sentenced were Dan Callahan, who was given F years; J. P Rose, who was sen fenced to serve eight years, and Al sutton, given one year and one day for assault with intent to commit the crime. All three of the men are now enroute to the Outside with the marshals party.
 CALLAHAN'S SENTENCE.
 The sentence against Dan Gala han was imposed last Tuesday morning before a court room crowd ed with curiosity seekers and others who had business before the court Asked if he had anything to say before sentence was pronounced. Cal lahan replied that he had a little speech he wanted to make He started out by stating that he was not guilty of the crime of which he had been convicted and that he had not had a fair trial When he spake of the latter matter he poured forth his feelings in torrent of inYective against the clerk of court and district attorney, particularly the latter, without precedent in the local courts, and making a great many of those who heard it hang their heads in very shame for the man who made such statements be fore crowd
 And he said that he made the at tack on the court officials without fear of the sentence that Judge Bunnell could give him. He spoke of Clerk of Court J E. Clark as Your man Friday with the dog eye and referred to Mr Roth in terms absolutely unprintable, charg ing him with having been put in straight jacket at St Vincent's school in Pennsylvania for the com mission of youthful indiscretions which, he said, were continued up to the present date Mr Roth listened to the attack with a smile. but it was the only smile in the court room For the vindictiye talk of the man at the bar of justice was not conducive to forming smiles on the faces of any who heard 1t Nor
 is it a fit subject for criticism
 In reference to MT Clark Gala han said that the clerk of court had fixed" the juries which tried his case and all others at this term of court He explained how, to his mind, the fixing was made easy. He attacked one well known mem Der of the grand jury, not naming him, by calling him the boss gambler of the town, and also made wordy attack on the physician who had tcs- tified in his case concerning his physical inability to commit the crime charged When speaking of Mir. Clark he also made reference to an incident with which he said the clerk of court was connected when the court party was travelling Ia ct m tho ct a TOn1fa
 Concluding his remarks before sen tence was passed Callahan said, in part;
 Now you needn't give any of them goody goody sermons of yours to me. Everybody in this country knows Dan Callahan, and anything you will say won't make them feel a bit worse or any better towards me. Why, If l hadn't been in jail the chances are l would have been up to the city hall last night sworn in to represent all you people the years. Gle was referring to the swearing into office of the city coun- cil on Monday night And I am kinda heavy on my feet and don't like to stand up long. That's all have to say"
 Judge Bunnell listened to the vio- lent tirade of the prisoner directed to him without interference, He then said it was not the intention of the court to make a long talk and his statement was therefore very brief. He stated that he thought and that he thought Callahan was guilty, despite the latter's statements to the contrary, and that he thought that he (Callahan) had been very ably defended.
 At this point Callahan interrupted the court to take the opportunity of eulogizing his attorney, Leroy Tozier He told how he had had only $17 In the world when he was arrested and how he had made ar engagements to turn over all of his property as security for a loan with which to fight the case, but that the attorney had refused to allow him to make the sacrifice and had charged him nothing for defending him. And l am not afraid that he will not keep up his work" he