Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-12-17
AND PRISONER
CLASH OVER SENTENCE

tC0ntinued from rage -
| ifs, armed 10 hilt, tho no weapons
were displayed. were speckled here
and there thruout the tribunal All
! entrances We're carefully guarded b."
men instructed TO shoot il Logan madA
| / false move. The sheriff took no
chances with a man he knows 10 be
one OF the worst offenders ever in
he county Jail despite his yellow
ness. Coming to the county building
Logan was handcuffeG in between Il
squad of officers The procession at
tracted a deal OF attention ana when
word was passed it was Logan being
taken To court, ii crowd Immediately
formed and rusned mp stairs to hear
the sentence
The following highly interesting
| controversy between court and de-
| PENDANT is the short hand record com
| piled by Court Reporter Horace Hull
| md kindly furnished the Free Trader
| Journal by him, n gives word Tor
word all that trausplrel during The |
! irama OF today:
| Up Before Judge.
Judge StouGh-YOu know what yol (
| were brought in.o court This morn 7
ng2
The prisoner 4 do. yes. sir.
Judge -toHgh-Haye you nHythina
TO say why sentene should nor Ne pr
nounced npon you?
The prisoner Nothing 10 say. BAT
am going TO the peniientiary for u
crime which did not commit and
would like to ask you for new trill
Judge Slough New trial
The pTisoner--les. sir
Judge Slough TO the clerk Mo
ton for new trial by the defendant in
person. To the prisOneD Do yoI
care 10 say anything on that? A.,
Argues for New Trial.
The prisoner Your honor, | beLeye +
you ought TO grant me ! new trial
They produced a haGhlishi that was )
found i'll an alley and | was arrested | i
on the main street They produced ,
an oyercoat and a cap as evidence r
against ME that ! mad not been wea' q
ing month before that. Two men y
got on the stand and committed per
Jury. These two men said they saw a
me in Sheridan that day When thes h
said that they committed perjury One n
of them said was brought out OF that
Jail all alone, and a man identified ,
me, Mr.. Hugland. He got up on tho
stand and said different. They said n
was brought out with ten or twelve :,
men and Mr. Highland was on the y
stand and said was brought out al 4
by myself. They produced bottle n
which they said was nitrCglycerin +,
hat was not examined by a chemist
they said il was partly examined and
said they did not know for sure a,
whether il vas nitroglycerin or no.
lie said the bottle he examined wa ir
much yeliower that the bottle that
vas produced up here in the court ir
oOm tsst 5~s
Judge Backs Jury. il
Judge Slough agree With the jury K
n the finding Of this verdict in your
ase. and If this is all you have tG sc
ay in favor Of your motion for a new
rial. | shall cverrule il Motion TO- If
new trial oyerruled Exception | tn
Vow that that motion is disposed OF,
here is only one Other matter left and &C
hat is the pronouncement OF sentence IN
n you on the verdict. Do you care
D say anything why sentence should
OF be pronounced upon you after til
ave overruled your motion for neA ia
'ial? .......... an
The prisoner-No, have nothing t st,
ty about il. hi
Judge StoughI think it is certain pc
lat you are guilty In
The prisoner can't Keep people ;c
en- thinking. an
Judge Accuses. %
Judge Stough-And | think it Is ,n'
ute certain that you contemplated ia
tner crimes and that those other NE
rimes would have been comnIete, sp
eiore this had not the officers inter
epIed your plans by arresting you
our conduct has been so notorious
lat even at this early hour in the 'p'
ornlng large audience has assem- 9
ed in the court room to get view VI
you and TO see what the court does ~
it'll your case. II you have any plafs "a a,
this world that you call your home '
,e officers Of the court and the police
iiciais are not aware OF it, Such
ace. If you have one, Is unknown t, NJ
e officials, 10 you care TO stat. j
w whore your home is?
The prisoner Why, told the Off d
ais had no home, but told them It.
here ! was born, not very far from ~
re. J
Conceals Place Of Abode. IF
Judge Stough-The trial has not dis ~
Osed where you came from or where -
~ were pound for. think yOl
ere on career OF crime, and, as be. .
re stated by me, think that you w
ere planning other crimes and that -,
VI were in quest OF favorable Oh. ',
rtunity TO commit them at the time , ~
your arrest, and YOU furnished proof n rir
That belief, as there was found upon bOA
n d bottle OF nitroglycerin. non
The prisoner-Beg pardon; that bot pee pee
was not found upon me. There w
IS nobody said so on the witness 'o, ~
md.