Evening star., 1925-02-01
JUDGE DENOUNCES
BLACKMA|L EDITOR
Bitterly AssaiIs Brevities
PoIiCy-Gives Glow Six
Years in Prison.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 31.-"Few
things are meaner than to threaten
publicly to blast the lives of private
individuals by publishing their social
or moral errors" Federal Judge Mack
declared today before a crowd led
courtroom. He then turned to Stephe en-
G Glow, publisher of Broadway BreY-
tiles, and sentenced him to six years
and a day at Atlanta Penitentiary.
plus a $4,000 fine, for conspiracy TO
use the mails to defraud.
CLOVIS advertising solicitor. An
drew B. Brown, was sentenced to At
lanta for two years. Nat Kunnes,
another solicitor, who completed the
trio that was convicted yesterday,
was ordered back 10 jail to await
sentence February II.
An additional fine of $1,000 WA
imposed upon the broadway Brevities
Corporation. Glow then was released
on $4,000 bail and Brown on $500
to await the result of an appeal for
new trial on nine indictments which
charged that representatives of the
publication collected thousands of
dollars in hush money from prom
inent persons upon threats to expose
their private activities.
Glow. who admitted on the stand that
he was hahtual user of hypodermical-
administered paraldehyde. during the
trial, sat tight Tipped throughout Judge
Mack's denuciation.
Hears Lcniency Plea.
The publisher heard his attorneys
plead for leniency on the ground that
he was broken in health and penniless
He heard prosecutors tell the court that
the circulation of Broadway Brevities
published through the trial period, was
increasing enormously
He heard Judge Mack order the
periodical barred from the mails and he
heard his attorney promise that publca-
tion would be suspended If Glow was
permitted bail while awaiting action on
appeal for a new trial
Then, as Brown and Kunnes were
chuckling over a page of colored comics,
Glow heard Judge Mack say:
Il haven't a shadow Of doubt over the
correctness Of the jury in finding YOU
guilty. There is no question but that
this sort of crime is meaner, nastier.
more disreputable in every respect than
crime involving taking money from poor
people.
DenounceS Action.
"I have no feeling of mercy for
men who make a business of such
business. Their conduct was beyond
the pale of any decent mans con-
ception of the demands of mercy.
TT is more disreputable to threat
en- to publish things that are untrue.
CLOVIS threats to publish articles
about men and women, to disclose Sc
crets in their lives which they wished
to conceal-even granting that those
things were true-were not to pro-
tect society or punish those whom he
threatened, but merely to extort
money.
The Governments difficulty in OBJ
tanning witnesses to testify against
Glow, because of their fear OF VEN
Seance, was appsrant throughout the
trial"
Maxwell s. Mattuck, assistant
United States attorney, who prose-
cuted the case, announced tonight
that evidence collected during the in
vestigation Of this case had been
turned over to the postal authorities
and that an inquiry is being conduct
ed which may result in the presenta-
tion to the Federal grand jury of
evidence against other publications.
other Moves Planned.
THE Brevities case" Mr. Msttucll
said, lis the entering wedge for an
attack on all similar publications.
The evidence collected during this in
vestigation has been turned over to
the postal authorities and an inquiry
is going on which may disclose evil
dence which will be presented to the
grand jury. Any person who has
been approached by any one using
the same methods that the Brevities
used can safely go to the postal au-
thorities with his grievances, because
the court in this case ruled against
the admiSsibility of any evidence re-
lating to the personal or private life
of the witness
The Brevities case has established
n precedent and the public owes a
debt of gratitude to Postal Inspectors
Daniel Quinn and James Pierson, who
worked up the case against Glow
and his convicted associates"