The New York herald., 1922-04-20
JUSTICE FINCH GIVES
AROBBER 40 YEARS
Scott Held Up Deputy L. 5,
Marshal-Six Major Cases
Disposed Of.

Justice Finch in the Supreme Court
yesterday gave a maximum sentence
of forty years to robber Judge Nc
Intyre in General Sessions gave an
other man twenty years to life i'm
prisonment for second degree murder.
These heavy penalties were the days
high lights in District Attorney Ban
tons speedy trials remedy for crime.
Seven cases OF major Importance were
disposed of. Besides the murder and
robbery sentences two men pleaded
guilty to manslaughter; a murder in
dictment was found and there were
two convictions. one for burglary and
the other for robbery.
A striking effect OF the general drive
against crime. which started vigorously
in the courts on Monday. is the num-
Der of homicide defendants who have
pleaded guilty. Monday there were six,
Tuesday four and yesterday three.
Eleven parts of the criminal courts
We're in session. which is the largest
number that has ever functioned in this
country. The place of Justice Deven-
dorf. who has been III, was taken by
Justice Cohalan, who presided over Part
10 OF the Criminal Branch of the Su-
preme Court.
The prisoner who got forty years for
first degree robbery Is Samuel Scott. 20.
a negro. Of II East 131st street. who was
convicted before Justice Finch Tuesday
OF sticking up" Deputy United States
Marshal, J. L. Hoffman of Il East
10th street. and taking his two pistols
and money away from him. The attack
took place on March % in the hallway
Of West 135th street.
IN a. 30 A.-t., faa
will have to serve three years on an old
sentence. He has been identified by six
persons as having held them up in a
brutal manner and robbed them.
The man sentenced by Judge Nc
Intyre to twenty years to life for second
degree murder is Clifford r.. Hart, 90.
Of 46 West 121th street. laborer. He
was sentenced by Judge Mcintyre in
General Sessions.
On March 13 he attacked John Berry
OF $40 West 1o3d street. q real estate
owner who had his days collections In
his pocket. Hart found him In a base
nent at $40 East 123d street. struck
him over the head with lead gas pipe
and robbed him Berry died in Harlem
Hospital. Hart was arrested later In
Trenton.
The two defendants who pleaded
guilty to first degree manslaughter were
remanded to Tombs prison for sentenc.
ing April o5 by Judge Mcintyre. They
are Raymond Lyons. 22, OF 18I Seventf
street. and George Washington Hobbs
a negro. of 235 East 121th street
On March Is Lyons shot and killed
Michael Renner OF lSs avenue B. as hc
put it, 'in a fit Of anger Hobbs re-
Gently gave himself up to the police In
Boston. He shot and killed. on July a.
1sla George yDoles. GO. OF 2c1 East 127tn
street. Doles was sitting at his win
dow when a bullet fired by Hobbs al
Detectives Shields and Butts and Capt.
John Noble of the East 126th street
station struck him.
Mrs. Gladys Reeves. "A, a negress OF
Ie7 West 1a5th street, was indicted for
first degree murder and was arraigncd
before Justice Finch. She is charge
with killing her husband. John. two
weeks ago In their apartment. she was
remanded to the Ton'bs to await trial
as she entered plea of not guilty TO the
accusation
The first case to be tried before Juds'
Johnstone in Part OF General Session.
was that OF Harry Glassner. 20. OF 104;
Southern Boulevard, The Bronx. a chauf
feur. Judge Johnstone was appointed Il
the bench recently and his first jury re
turned verdict OF guilty of burglary II
the third degree. Glassner on February
is. 1920. with several others. stole SIC.
900 worth of furs from loft Of Lazarus
Bros. 3s West Twenty-eighth street
They carted the goods away in truck
Glassner will be sentenced April "a.
Henry Toyne. 81. OF 162 West Fiji
teenth street. a chauffeur. was convicted
yesterday before Judge Taliey In Genera
Sessions OF first degree robbery. He viii
be sentenced April 2S.
He Is charged with holding up on Sep
tember IL. 1921. Enlogio Lozado Of a
Horatio street and zacharias Asala o
the same address. He is alleged to hay.
beaten up both men outside OF a res
taurant on Eighth avenue between Four
tecnth and Fifteenth streets