Evening journal., 1921-09-21
ASKS COURT FOR
ANOTHER chance
Youth With Long Police
Records Makes Plea for
Leniency
rs DEFENDANTS
PLEAD NOT GUILTY

Pleas OF not guilty we're entered
| by all but one Of about twenty-five
defendants who were arraigned be-
Z fore Judges Heisel and Richards in
Court OF General Sessions this morn
| ing. About fifteen defendants who
are on bail failed to appear for
arraignment.
Judge Heisel announced that de-
| fndants on bail who do not appear
| before the court on Friday morn
/ ing for arraignment, will forfeit their
bail bonds.
Henry Gale, IT years OF age, a
/ former inmate of the Ferris Indus
| trial School, was the one defendant
who pleaded guilty to the charge
. against him, that OF breaking and
entering the dwelling and grocery
store OF Max Kahn. Pennsylvania
avenue and Lincoln street, last June.
Gale said that his father put him
away in the reform school when
he was about twelve years Of age.
! He admitted that he escaped from
I the reform school and later. after
being recaptured. was paroled. He
said he has been confined in the
7 workhouse on the breaking and en-
tering charge since June, during
which time. he said. he has not
been visited by his parent
The youth asked the court for a
"chance TO make good" promising
/ that he will endeavor TO do right
and II he Is successful in securing
work that he will stick to It.
i According to his record, Gale was
i before the Juvenile Court in 1919
on a charge OF assault and battery
Il in 1917 and 1913, on charge OF
disorderly conduct; in 1919, on a
charge OF breaking and entering, for
which he was committed to the re.
Il form school, and in 1920 he pleaded
guilty to a charge OF larceny OF ar
umbrella and was sentenced TO three
months Imprisonment.
Judge Heisel. stating that an in
Il vestigation would be made TO see II
leniency would be warranted, con
tinued the case.
Young Gale said he was out o.
4 work and living away from home
which led him 10 rob the Kahn store
u He got only 81. ne said. and not s45
q as alleged.
The case OF Thomas Crumlish
II charged with committing crim'
against nature. was continued until
the next term OF court, at the re
. quest OF George W. Lilly. his attor
nev. He pleaded not guilty.
In the case OF Burton Quail an'
James smith. Negroes. charged will
larceny OF a chair from Hymal
Cohen. a Front street second-han'
dealer. a nolle prosequi was en-
tered by Attorney-General Town
send.
Ira johnson. Negro. provide
n some excitement when he fell in
s nt while occupying a seat in tn
. court room.
johnson is out on $4,000 bail o
# an appeal from a Municipal Cour
II decision. sentencing him TO nv
years imprisonment on a charge o
shooting three people. He Is tn
II proprietor OF the Douglas House, o
q Walnut street. between Elevent
"a and Twelfth streets. He was sen
II fenced to three years for shooun
one man and a year each for shoot
& ing two passersby, who were struc
III by stray bullets.
n Court Crier George Smith. Parol
* officer oliver and Deputy Sheri'
Thomas X. Parker. gave first aid an
removed the man to room nearb,
where he was revived.
II Appeals from decisions OF the Mu
+ nicipal Court we're filed this morn
8 ing as follows:
Assault and battery-Luther
s johnson. Joseph Ware and Archi
IN Kearney.
Carrying concealed a dead
Il weapon-Frank Phillowski.
Violation Liquor Laws-Carr
81 Wilson.
Non-upport-John Jackson.