Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-21
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were from San Francisco, were CIV
en- sentences of from two years and
six months to four years in the
Eastern penitentiary by President
Judge George Kunket to-day. They
were called for sentence in court
room No. 1 this morning shortly be-
fore the session closed.
According to Shuler and Chal-
lenger the men were taken in the
formers machine to Clark's Ferry
and there, with loaded revolvers
pointed at Challenger, demanded
and received SIS. Judge Kunkel told
the defendants they had committed
one of the most serious offenses on
the criminal records. 1t was said
that the youths gave Fictitious
names to save their families from
disgrace. The police have been un-
able to identify them through any
records. After they had been SEN
fenced they were handcuffed in the
courtroom by Sheriff w. w. Cald-
we'll and taken to Jail.
Two other men, both colored,
were given penitentiary sentences
for attacking and robbing peanut
vender. They were George Patter-
son and John Williams, who were
each given a sentence of from fif-
teen months to three years in the
penitentiary by Judge Kunkel.
Pleads For Daughter
When Eva Cole, colored, convict
ed of aggravated assault and bat
terry. was called for sentence in
courtroom No. before Judge A. w.
Johnson, her father, Walter B. Cole,
interceded for her and asked the
court to be lenient in imposing SEN
tence. Eva. it was charged, slashed
a man with q razor while the two
were quarreling.
Judge Johnson talked kindly to
Cole and told him that after care
fully considering the case he had de-
cided that he might not impose
penitentiary sentence. When 1t was
said that the girl had served pre-
vious Jail sentence Judge Johnson
ordered an investigation to deter
mine if she were the same person
and directed Assistant District At
torney Frank B. Wickersham to call
her again this afternoon.
Judge Johnson, when Mr.. Cole
pleaded for his daughter and ad-
mitted he, too, had made mistakes
when he was young, replied that this
was true in many of the average
families, and that in watching his
children he found that they made
little mistakes just the same as he
had when a boy. Other attorneys
who were present in the courtroom
Joined in the discussion. one of them
asking how about the mothers
faults.
$1,000 For Matrimony
THE mother is generally better
than the father" Judge Johnson
quietly replied. His response was re-
ceived with some little laughter, but
he told the attorneys that his re-
marks were given in seriousness.
Then one of the lawyers suggested
VIII y not send the father to Jail and
let the daughter go, when Judge
Johnson recalled a play in which the
father had always punished himself
when his children did any wrong.
The judge said he would let the ia
.ther go in this case because of his
good record, but that he could not
grant the parents wish to have his
daughter released on probation.
Asen Ivanoff, in defending him
self in a larceny spit brought by Mix
Dancheff, who accuses him of swim
ding him oct of $1,000 by trickery,
declared that he and Mix were good
friends and that Mix was supposed
to furnish this money because a
wealthy woman had been found out
west who would marry him.
A number of other prosecutions
were disposed of in the two court
rooms as follows: Elmer F'o, George
Carlile, serious charge, acquitted;
George Washington, Thomas Brown,
larceny from the person, bill ig-
nored; Charles E. Weibley, serious
charge, bill ignored; Arthur Wynn,
larceny and false pretenses, acquit-
ted; Edward Brown, larceny, ac-
Quilted Clifton Martin, larceny,
three months; Herbert Derry, lar
ceny, four months: Joe Kennel, re-
ceiving stolen goods. acquitted; Fen
ton Snowden, same charge, two
months; Pete Raglan, larceny, six
months