Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-09
HEAVY SENTENCES
DEALT OFFENDERS
Judge Kunkel Sends Burglars
TO Penitentiary; Nine Pleas
of. Guilty Heard

Nine pleas of guilty were heard by
President Judge Kunkel in criminal
court this morning, and sentences
ranging from three to eighteen
months were imposed on eight de-
PENDANTS. The remaining one was
discharged.
that drink was the cause of their
misdeeds.
Theodore Williams, alias Ander-
son, and Kid Flowers, colored, were
sentenced to pay fines of So. costs
and to serve not less than one year
nor more than one year and six
months in the Eastern Penitentiary,
on the charge of burglary. They
confessed entering the home of
Harry NJ. Shope, Swatara township,
and stealing a pocketbook containing
sos and a watch. Showing that there
is nothing in the adage that there
is honor among thieves, Flowers
kept all but five dollars, telling Will
liams the purse contained no more.
He agreed to give Williams the
watch, but kept it to make up for
the five dollars. Williams did the
work while Flowers watched, it was
said.
Charles Temple was sentenced to
pay fine of SIS, costs, and to serve
six months in the Dauphin county
Jail for loading a two-ton wagon of
coal belonging to the United Ice and
Coal Company and selling it for $4,
even delivering it in the company S
wagon on the company's time. He
was employed by the United Ice and
Coal Company thirteen years.
Frank Meyer was sentenced to
pay a five-dollar fine and costs and
serve six months in Jail for stealing
copper kettle and brass fittings
from the bunkhouse on the Reilly
farm near Fort Hunter, where he
had been employed. He disposed of
them at a junk dealers in this city.
To Pen For Shirt Thcfts
Grover Fowler. charged with
stealing two silk shirts valued at $S
each from a Market street outfitting
store few hours after he landed in
Harrisburg, was sentenced to not
less than a year nor more than tif-
teen months in the Eastern Peniten-
tiary, and a fine of So. While a
companion diverted the clerks at
tention, he stole the shirts. The
companion then informed the) police
and the shirts were recovered from
Fowler.
Carl N. Schooner, charged with
stealing a woman's suitcase from the
Pennsylvania passenger station, also
confessed to stealing a companions
suitcase at Mt. Union, and was sem
fenced to pay fine of S5 and serve
three months in Jail.
LorenZa Bryant, who confessed he
stole Finkelstein's automobile for
his own use, and who drove it to
Chicago. where he damaged it to
the extent of 5000, was sentenced
to ten months in Jail and to pay a
fine of S5. He entered a plea of
guilty previously, declared then he
was not guilty, and then entered the
plea of guilty to-day.
Clifford Spencer, aged 20, arrest
ed at Middletown on serious charge
was sentenced to be committed to
the Huntingdon reformatory. Silas
Williams, charged with surety of
the peace. was discharged.
Counsel for Park D. Yost, charged
with nonsupport, and Mrs. Yost
agreed that he should pay Mrs, Yost
$50 a month and enter $500 for
security.
A petition by Byron V. Brouant
and Annie NJ. Brought, his wife. for
a revocation of the adoption decree
making Dorothy Marie Brought the
daughter and heiress of James K.
May, will be considered by the court
after an investigation has been made
TO discover whether a revocation of
the decree would esta bish prece-
dent.