Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-17

/ For the first time In a number OF years
| prisoners from Indiana are being sent to
/ Learworth, Kan. For the past few
years all prisoners from Judge AldAr-
sons court have been sentenced to the
Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga, but that
prison is crowded and all men sentenced
today were ordered taken TO Leaven-
worth.
| William 81. Chenowsth, a soldier aE 81,
Benjamin Harrison, admitted stealing
/ Government blankets from the quarter
masters department and selling them 10
( junk dealer. He received a sentence Of
/ one year and one day. Frederick Van
! Nuys, United States district attorney, told
/ the court the case was being Investigated
further.
FOUR YEARS AS
/ COUNTERFEITER.
A four year sentence fell TO the los
/ Of William Hairless Of Lebanon, q farmer
[ who admitted raising one dollar bills
to ten dollars. Hairless cannot read or
write, but he sturdily denied that any
/ one had taught him to DO this work.
Capt Thomas q HauE head Of the
/ United States secret service here, said
/ he did not believe Hairless was telling
the truth.
You're a dangerous man." Judge An.
.
would do If you could read and write.
/ The case Of Tom Everett, negro, who
signed his name to q $500 Liberty bond
at Gary and tried to ash It, frankly puz-
zled the court, and the case vas taken
under AMUSEMENT Everett told a long,
/ but straight out story OF being used as
tool unwittingly by others TO cash the
/ bond and said he did not sign his name
to it until told to do so by a Gary city
? y
/ Van Nuys how 1t came Everett had been
indicted by the grand jury.
CASH GOVERNMENT
INSURANCE CHECK.
Another case that Judge Anderson
found difficult to solve and which he
held over until later IN the day was that
of Louise Ritchey Mckay and her son,
Lawrence W. y. Mckay OF Winter Haven,
Fla, and Franklin, Ind. They were
charged with cashing 4 wsr risk insur.
ance check for S437.6O belonging to Harry
Weinbrenner. patient at q Government
hospital at Waukesha, wis. Mrs. Mckay
denied knowledge of the fact that the
check belonged TO Weinbrenner. Cap
tain Halls interposed plea for the wom~
an and told the court he did net believe
4 she was mentally sound, and Sddeds
/ She is unfortunate. She has fallen qua
with all her relatives"
That is not always a misfortune"
Judge Anderson replied.
Albert r. Carter Of Philadelphia, who
bore q whole flock Of aliases, and who
! frankly admitted he had been kept out OF
I fail before through the influence Of
friends and that he had been in trouble
on a charge of desertiOn from the army
although he refused TO discuss the matter
with the court received q sentence or
four years for having in his possession
money order blanks stolen from a SUBJ +
station at Pittsburgh. He was arrested
while trying to cash one at the poston1ce
here several months ago.
Zed Kiah Hudson of Washington, and /
Harry Grady ei Nashville, Tenn, re-
ceived three years and Grady's ToungeR
brother Harry eighteen months for steal.
ing O mail pouch containing SS,4236O at
Sullivan IN June.
Hudson made a plea for q lighter sem |
tence for the Grady brothers, taking
large part Of tn eblame for the robbery
on his own shoulders.
what sentence do you think you ought
to have" Judge Anderson asked Grady.
" Think I ought to get not day less
than three years, your honor, but l don't
think the Gradys ought to have less
than I get" Hudson answered.
HAS FOUR YEARS
IN ARMY PRISON.
well 1 can accommodate You as far
as you yourself go, but I think Harry
Grady ought to have as much IS you
get" replied the Judge.
Henry Grady. told the court he had
four year sentence to serve as the result
Of a military court-martiaL
'rWuI YOU have to serve this army
sentence. or IS there a parole system In
existence p" the court asked. On being
told by the prisoners that there was no
such system Judge Anderson said.
THE reformers certainly are overlook
ing a fine opportunity"
William Haywood, negro, Of Terre
Haute. got a two months jail sentence
for making four sales ON morphine. He
already has spent two months in jail
Haywood told the court he was porter
in a saloon.
FOLLOW FOOTSTEPS
OF ARBUCKLE?
Lets see" Judge Anderson said,
Isn't that what Fatty Arbuekle was be-
fore he went into the movies 2"
Clifford \. Nuckols. Edward J. Tierney
and Oliver o. Woods, all Of Indianapolis,
admitted they had forged the names OF
indianapolis physicians to prescriptions
in order to obtain morphine and were
sentenced to Leavenworth for eighteen
months each, despite their pleas for
lenlency on the ground that they were
the victims of the dope habit and were
under the influence of the drug when
they filed out the prescriptions.
YOUTHFUL AUTO
THIEVES SENTENCED.
The youngest automobile thieves ever
to appear in Federal Court were Harry
Flaucky. Is. and Kenneth Miller, 49, both
Of South Bend. Last summer they stole
q Studebaker sedan from Niles, Mich,
drove it to South Bend, threw away the
Michigan license plates and substituted
Indiana plates stolen from another car.
They then drove to Syracuse, Ind, where
they were caught while trying to steal
gasoline.
Judge Anderson put the question to
them squarely what their sentence should
be and the boys said that they have
been in Jail 107 days already and that
they thought six months more would be
sufficient The court thought Hkewise.
Both boys were good looking youngsters
and did not appear to be Of the tough"
type. They insisted it was their hrse