The evening world., 1922-05-05
TOTAL SENTENCES
OF 15O YRS. GIVEN
TO 29 ROBBERS
Lightning Larry" Second
Offender, Gets 80 Years
Police Complimented.
SAILOR GETS 20 YEARS
Pecoro, Who Shot Old Man
on Bowery During Hold-Up,
Sent Up for 9 to 1S Years.

Sentences, for the most part at
hard labor in State Prison. amount
ing to $50 years, were passed out to-
day by Judges Mulqueen and Rosal-
sky in the Court of General Sessions.
They were all upon men who had
been guilty of robbery in some degree.
In passing sentences upon twenty
nine men, who either had taken pleas
or stood trial and been convicted,
both Judges took occasion to compl-
ment the police upon the good work
they had done. In some cases it was
shown that to make the arrests the
officers had taken their, lives in their
hands.
The heaviest sentence was given to
William Flanagan, thirty-two, of No.
34s East 5Sth Street, better known
as Lightning Larry. Flanagan had
couple of prior convictions against
him. Judge Rosalsky sent him up
for thirty years as a second offender.
He robbed a tugboat Captain, John
Cox, in a hallway in East seth Street,
in February last. Flanagan, it was
stated, was not relative of the man
of that name who was convicted of
murder recently. Other sentences by
Judge Rosalsky were:
Raymond Melendes, twenty one.
a sailor from Porto Rico, to twenty
years. Melendes had two prior con-
victions. With others he held up a
restaurant at No. 203 West 116th
Street and got $125 from the patrons
and the cash drawer. He was caught
after a chase and light by Detective
Lynch of the West 12sd Street Sta
ton.
John Piecoro, twenty two, of No.
146 Classon Avenue, who came into
prominence in police circles when. in
holding up a lunch room at Bowery
and Fourth Street, he shot John
Templeton, seventy-four years old. to
get 81 from the cash register, was
sentenced to from nine to eighteen
years.
John Gremer, with two previous
convictions for misdemeanor, was sent
to State Prison for from three years
and six months to seven years and si1
months. Gremer tried to hold uI
Policeman Henry ]. Siebel at 69tt
Street and the East Drive of Centra.
Park. Siebel shot and killed Newton
Sutton, Gremer's partner. and ther
shot and wounded Gremer.
Isaac Krasnoski, twenty-n mine, o
No. BIT East 14th Street, with no pre-
Vious convictions, was sentenced Il
from ten to twenty years for holding
up and robbing Max Stein Of No. 56;
Sheffield Street, Brooklyn.
While the court was passing out
these sentences the jury that hat
tried the case Of Richard O'Donnel
for the hold-up Of the paymaster o
the Hornthal Casket Company. a
Lexington Avenue and SD Street, ol
March 4, came in with verdict o
guilty of robbery in the first degree
Judge Mulqueen passed out other sen
tences as follows:
Francis Smith, twenty one, of No
80 West 145th Street; Henry E. Ellis
twenty-one, OF No. 140 West 1885
Street, Negroes and old offenders
twenty years each for the robbery o
Michael Kraus of No. 20 West 135tl
Street.
James Harrison, thirty-f four, Mill
Hotel, from five to ten years for hold
ing up Charles Jenson, a jeweller.
Manuel Portel, twenty-five, VIII
gave his occupation as Salvation
Army was sentenced to the peniten
tiary on a plea of guilty to stealth
clothing from Manuel Burbank Q
No. ss7 West 18th Street.