Evening journal., 1918-05-10
YEAR SENTENCES FOR
TWO DOPE SELLERS
Third One, Who Pleads
Guilty, Gets Eight
Months Sentence
3 DAYS FOR MAN
WHO IGNORED COURT

Yesterday and The one who entered
! plea Of guilty
These prisoners werc Grace Foster
and James louns found guilty. and
Edna Kane. who admitted her Tiilt
IN handling the drug
Judge Rice in imposing sentence call
ed upon Grace Foster as the hrst TO
receive punishment BE informed her
when she stood up in front Of the pris-
oners dock that having been convicted |
The court felt that she he given the
ful penalty OF the law-S2O0 fine. i'm |
prisonment for one year and payment |
, of the costs Of prosecution This he
nXed
Next came Enna Kane. Deputy At
torney-dieneraI Green called the courts
] attention TO her plea and said that the
e state expected 20 use her as witness
5 In one Of the remaining cases In view
81 Of these facts Ednas sentence was FOR
p eight months without the hne
b sentence OF James Young was next
D passed Like Grace he was convicted
4 and therefore received the fun penalty
e. 800 fine and Imprisonment for one
o year
o Odis Wren. who also was convicted
yesterday. was not sentenced motion
y for new trial having been made m
4 his case.
r Prior TO these sentences court pro-
ceedngs had been waiting upon a wit
s ness, a eolored man named Gross who
10 had been summoned by judge Ball 20
" appear as a witness in the case "
Joshua Lister. one Of the defendants
d whose trial Attorney General Rcinhardl
It and Deputy Attorney General Green
. had planned 90 stage today.
nrT N. 80 N-N
" Gross had been told 90 be in court to-
r day under subpoena An attachment.
: was at once issued for him and a
Is sherinrs deputy sent 10 round Gross
up he was found and brought into
T. court His excuse was that he had been
- obliged 10 so somewhere upon some
other business This didn't impress
Id the court, and Judge Rice gave him
n three days In Jail during which Ia
ponder upon The foOiishness involved
IN Ignoring what the courts tell him
10 do
With this disposed OF. a jury Wa.
drawn for Listers trial. and the cas'
I transferred TO Room NO ,. where Judg'
II Hese took his seat b. hear q.
Deputy Attorney General Cree
handled the states side and as sool
,,i as he had outlined what he expecte
ha m to prove, it became evident that Judg
-, Ball. for the defense, intended 10 nsh
in every step OF the going
~, Paul Edwards. who was the Slate
az chief witness against Grace Foster an
~ james YOUNG yesterday took the stan
~ for similar duty against Lsster. AM
-. Ike the Foster case this was a :
- Patricks Day job. he testified sc.
terday in that trial that he had gone
N Graces room on the day OF the gre'
Irish saint which happened 20
Isi Sunday Also according 10 his test
itl mony today he went 20 Lasters HON
ac- iOi jefferson street and told Lsster ,
nA' wanted TO buy a deck or pachal
ess Of heroin
en- Laster he said. told Edna Kane, VT
'et' was in ihc-r room 10 give the deck
iss the witness. which she did. and in tui
yer he gave her the money for u.
teo Mr. Green next called Edna Kan
Ind She testified that she gave the pacl
age TO Edwards, because Josh La
ters cut-down Christian name fol
n her to do IL The money, she said. 81
II gave 20 Lasters wife
iu- Cross-examined by Judge Ball, Edr
to seemed 10 have forgotten that she ha
sd- only a short time before been sci
sad fenced 10 eight months because whe
asked by Judge Ball II this had NJ
. taken place she replied that she didn
ro- know
detective Sergeant Green. who su
3D. ceeded Edna on the stand. told
the sending Edwards TO Lasters 20 E
ney heroln and providing marked mont
We for the purpose, and TO receiving fro
lss Edwards a packet which proved
Ter contain the drug ludge Ball eros
OF examined and got into a little tho wi
of Tho witness over the matter Of COZ
re- plants regarding the sale OF heroin.
'ho Detective Riley told of going TO {
ave Laster home TO make the arrest and
can search Of the premises lie told of ha
u ing had trouble with Lasier when
'ru- sought TO have a bureau draw
ken opened. in which he later found sol
g IS money In bills and change, and al
now more trouble when he wanted TO scar
as a dresser. Laster he said, threw
ide- KEYS OF the dresser 10 his wife a
der told her neither 10 gNe them up
5ary Riley nor open the dresser But Ri
persuaded her and she opened it
all side he found two bottles mari
ern- heroin
lild- Dr Watson, state chemist. vas
inn next witness. He told OF examining
'rm- packages submitted to him as res
wiz OF IadelrI = arrest ullA aAN uANn ~
and chase. He found heroin hydrochlor
pro in them
bud Then began a tint between juC
ton, Ball and Mr. Green over the chemi
sble nature OF heroin and It's relation
morphine and opium Dr. Watson 5
heroin hydrochloride was obtained
~. treating morphis with a acetic al
" Hvdrochloric acide is added TO this
and make the heroin soluble
After the state closed, Judge
called for and submitted in evidel
rs. the indictment against Edna Kane. II
Della he called Viola Laster. the prison'
wife She said that on ST. Patricks
your Edwards had not been at the house
per- all. although he did visit there the n
nat day. But on the day he said he \
lg OF there she and her husband started "a
ciais 10 Camp Dix. They got as far as
Wee' station when Laster was taken sick
prev took him 20 a doctor and then no
where he went TO bed and renal
20 w there until the next day
.' va Proceeding further with this defe
. .ss' Of complete denial Of the States ALE
..as. tions. Judge Ball put Laster on
~, stand he said he had been sick on
,sdsy Patricks DAY as his wife had test
loci and gone 10 ned.
s-ine Then George Gross, the absentee
near ness Judge Rice han punished, told