Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-03
IS TO 40 YEARS
FOR kIDNAPPER
ROSALIE SHANTY
Judge Says Would
Have Given Life If
Law Permitted
Raymond Wilson of Grand
Rapids on Way to Prison
Following Record Breaking
Trial-Spirited Girl Away to
Swamp and Abandoned Her
on Sunday Last

Muskegon, Mich. Nov. Raymond
E. Wilson of Grand Rapids, who
pleaded guilty at noon today to the
kidnapping of 11-year- Rosalie
Shanty, was sentenced by Judge John
Nanderwerp in circuit court this aft
ernoon to from 35 to &C years impris-
Marquette.
Judge Vanderwerp recommended
that Wilson be required to serve the
maximum term. Within 80 minutes
after sentence was pronounced, Will
son was enroute to Marquette, in
charge of two officers.
Wilson had nothing to say when
sentence was passed He stood look
ing at the judge while several OIL
GERS surrounded him. The court
room was damned despite efforts to
keep the arraignment and sentencing
quiet.
IF I had been able under the law
TO give you a life sentence, l would
have done so without delay" the
judge said in explaining why sentence
was not pronounced Immediately
Upon Wilson's plea of guilty at noon.
However, / had to give you a term
of years, so / wanted to study on it,"
Grand Rapids. Mich, Nov. ?
/ While 11-year- old Rosalie Shanty lay
near death in farmhouse at Dublin,
Mich, early today. Raymond E. Will
son of Grand Rapids, was being held
at the county Jail here under heavy
guard, as the man vino kidnapped the
child last Sunday. drove with her to
the jack pine swamps of Manistee
county, and there abandoned her.
Wilson confessed, the sheriff's of
flee reported, that he abducted the
child. A formal charge of kidnapping
was lodged against him and the Off
GERS announced he WOULD be ar
raigned on that count unless develop
| ments in the girls condition war
| ranted a change.
| Word from Dublin this morning
| was that Resale, widely known here
as the swimming girl through her
expert exhibitions at local beach
| last summer, might not recover. She
was still in semi -cnoscious state
and suffering from a high fever as a
result of exposure in the forests
where she was found by farmer,
| her clothing torn to shreds and her
body scratched and bruised by the
underbrush.
, In his statement to the authorities,
| Wilson was quoted as saying he en-
/ t:ced the child into his automobile as
she was leaving a church here Sun
Gay, drove her about the city for a
time, then started for Dublin. Near
that town, the reported statement
said, Rosalie became alarmed and
! asked to be let out of the car Will
son said he left her near farm
house and then returned to Grand
| Rapids. The prisoner said he was in
toXicated when he took the girl into
his machine and was unable to ex-
plain his action.
Feeling ran high in Muskeoa when
it became known today that Wilson
was being held here and numerous
deputies and police reserves were
called out to guard against disorders.
strong Gordon was thrown around
the Jail and citizens were not per-
united to congrcgate in the streets
| for blocks around the building
Wilson is Al years old and has been
married twice. Officers said he had
police record here, and had served
term in jackson prison.