The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-11
FOUR YOUTHS
!. CONVICTED AS
GAS HAWKS
Joseph AIStatt, 18, to Get
Life Sentence in
Attack Case.
THREE GIVEN 8 TO 21'
Remy to Press Campaign
Against Kidnapers, He
Announces.
THREE GIVEN s TO 21'

Joseph Alstatt, 10, of $40 High
land Ave-, will be sentenced to life
imprisonment for attack on girl,
and three other gas hawks were
sentenced to shorter terms for sim
liar assaults today.
Alstatt was found guilty Tuesday
and the punishment must be for life,
because the girl is under IL. The
three others sentenced today were:
Albert Kennedy, 81, of 1905 Olive
ST., five to twenty-one years in the
reformatory.
Robert Turner, %, of 1871 Shelby
ST., five to twenty-one years in the
reformatory.
Harold Van Walters, %, of the
Shelby st. address, five to twenty
one years in the reformatory.
One Case Continued
Case OF Clifford Wicks, %, of 1914
Naomi ST., charged with similar
crime, was continued until Thursday
morning, to be heard by Special
Judge Fremont Afford, who presided
at the Alstatt trial.
The two girls in the cases in
volved today were Band IA years
old, causing the crimes to come I'M
der the statute setting extreme
penalty at i've to twenty-one years
as the punishment.
Alstatt was to be sentenced today
if his attorney, Miss Bess. Robbins,
could get her papers pertaining to
appeal arranged. No date has been
set, but it is believed he will be sem
fenced formally late this week.
Remy to Rush Gases
81 have anly..begun to fight" said
Prosecutor William H. Remy, who
is handling the gas hawk cases per-
sonally, when sentence was pro-
nounced today. arrangements are
being made to rush similar cases
pending in criminal as well as mu-
nicipal courts.
"These men tried to plead guilty
to a lesser charge and escape with
one to ten-year sentences" Remy
said, discussing his announced ef-
forts to prosecute vigorously and
seek the extreme penalties in cases
of outrages on young girls.
Another gas hawk case, that OF
Francis Jones, 10, was continued in
Juvenile Court today h. Judge
Frank j. Lahr. Jones is charged
with contributing to delinquency, in
connection with an assault on an
18-year-old girl, after trip into the
country in his automobile.
Clemency Recommended
Alstatt was found guilty by jury,
which recommended clemency, while
the trio today was tried by Judge
Collins.
Special Judge Afford was to
pass on whether a plea for Glenn
ency, signed Ly the jury and re-
turned with its verdict, is to be for
warded to prison with the commit
ment.
Miss Robbins, attorney for
Alstatt, announced she will appeal.
It is possible that young Alstatt
will be released on bond pending
appeal, since convictions for all ex-
cept capital crimes are bailable dur
ing appeal.
Prosecutor William H. Remy also
will direct personally the prosecu-
ton Of Van Walters, as he did the
Alstatt case. He was assisted by
Chief Deputy Judson L. Stark and
Deputy Vincent H. Manifold.
Warning Is Sounded
"Our streets and parks must be
cleared Of this type Of criminal"
said Remy, land I will make every
effort to get the extreme penalty in
each Of these attack cases. When
the girl is over IL, the punishment is
from five to twenty-one years"
It is Alstatt's second conviction.
He had been free only a few months
after serving sentence on the
State penal farm for stealing, when
: the attack took place May 8.
Two companions, named in q con-
fession introduced by the State, still
are at large.