Evening journal., 1919-07-24
20 ADMIT GUILT
BEFORE JUDGE rice
Several Are Given Short
Prison Sentences on
Larceny Charges
FIVE WOMEN WERE
AMONG DEFENDANTS


was Abraham Heller, VINO pieaosa
Tlilty TO a charge OF larceny OF szz
from Chester ]. Morford. He TOOK the
money from the complainants room
81 sge Rice sentenced him to uree
months Imprisonment.
Drink was attributed by, Lawrence
goober as the cause Of his stealing.
from George Hart. II was brought Out
that he had also been caught IN the
act OF attempting to steal an overcoat
from a local store. but was not pros
ecuted. lie was intoxicated at that
time. too, Il was said, which was De-
fore July 4.
He was sentenced TO ten months i'm
MARY Howard, pleaded guilty to
charge Of larceny Of two pairs OF trous-
ers from local store, saying That sne
and her child had not had anything TO
eat for three days and that she TOOK
the articles in order to trade them on
for food. .,.a
Mrs. Howard pleaded 10 be paroledi
on account OF her sick husband anu
child. but Judge Rice, impresslng on
her that shopliftlng must be broken
up. sentenced her 10 two months I'M
prisonment.
Pleading guilty 10 a charge OF lar
cenv Of some women's wearing apparel
from the Braunstein store, Apalona
T.evandovski was also sentenced 10
two months Imprisonment. She was
represepted by Edwin n. Cochran, Jr'
The case Of Miss lnez j. Engllsh'
charged with the larceny Of ring
was continued until the SepteHDer
term OF court, and she was released Oh
her own recognizance.
Thomas Laffey pleaded guilty To a
charge OF larceny Of three goat SKINS
from the Standard Kid Manufacturing
Company. He was sentenced 10 mree
months Imprisonment.
Charles Frazier, Negro, pleaded guilty
10 a charge Of keeping disorderiy
house. and was sentenced TO SIX
months Imprisonment.
A charge OF soliciting against Frazier
was withdrawn.
pleading guilty 70 charge OF carry
ing a revolver, found on him Wheh
searched after being sentenced Tor IL
legal riding on a train. John ROBINSON
a Negro. was sentenced to four months
In the workhOuse.
RAYMOND Perkins, Negro, pleaded
guilty TO charge Of disturbing a reig-
ious meeting and resisting arrest
Perkins. 10 was told. ran after wo-
man in a church. at Middletown' dur
ing services, flourishing a revolver ana
threatening everybody in the church.
The day following his arrest, he as
saulted Constable Dickinson. who IS 50
vears old. plunging him head first down
The stairs in the jail. causing painful
bruises 10 the aged officer. Constable
dickinson denied the Negro's assertion
that he had not received anything to
at since arrested the day before and
nat the constable had blackjacked him
when he demanded food. Il was neces-
sarv. however, TO blackjack Perkins
but the cause was that the Negro
started 10 attack him
Perkins was sentenced 70 six months
Imprisonment and to pay Ine OF sSu
or resisting an officer. Inc olher
harge was Withdrawn.
For highway robbery on man IN
pyle's lane, Leo Alenski was sentenced
% one years Imprisonment and to pay
I fine OF $500 and costs.
Benjamin Fannon, pleading guilty 20
charge OF improper conduct toward
4 small girl, was sentenced to tNe
months Imprisonment and to pay o
ane Of 900 and costs.
Frank Ennis was sentenced to nine
months imprisonment for escaping
rom the workhouse while serving q
sentence for having more than a quar-
OF liquor In his possession In KEN
county
Alfred Ringgold, Negro, also pleading
guilty TO a charge Of escaping IRON
fhe workhouse. was sentenced tC
nine months Imprisonment. RinggolC
was sentenced in July last year for as
sault and battery, and escaped while
working on the Lincoln highway tn
following day. His sentence would
have expired last September.
He said he was sick from usint
dope
In passine sentence Judge Rice I'M
pressed upon him that when prisone
escapes il makes 10 harder for tn
other prisoners; that 10 means tha
certain liberties must be taken iron
them.
Following an investigation by Pre-
baton officer Frank Stout, who recon
mended that he be not paroled, Charlie
Huggins. a young Negro, Who pleade
guilty at the last sessiOn-of court I
breaking and entering a King stree
meat store. was sentenced TO nv
months Imprisonment. The boy
reputation was found TO be bad.
John Denn pleaded guilty TO charge
OF assault with intent TO commit mul
der on his brother, Benjamin Denn, an
Mrs BENJAMIN DEM, with shotgun
the cabin. over Eleventh street bridg
sometime ago. He was sentneced
three Years Imprisonment and TO pa
fine Of $500 and costs on one chars
BENJAMIN DEM said that they haN
been having more or less trouble VI
past i6 years"
John. il was shown, first attacke
Mrs. Dem. the shot injuring one
her eyes so that it had TO be removes
He then shot his brother in the shou
der and turned the gun on himsel
tearing his lower jaw away
John =. Lynn, who was appointed a
torney for Denn by the court, said TN
Denn had been drinking. All DEM
trouble has been with his brother. /
said
After sentence had been pronounce
tears started down Dennis mutilate
face.
As her husband, James Allen, OF y
Z. Rockford Road, expressed his desil
10 take her back again, nolle proseql
was entered in the case OF Mrs. Ann
VI. Allen, charged with bigamy y
pleaded guilty and promised to q
back 10 her husband and hereafter b.
have herself