Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-12
Banker, Announcing He Will
Not Appeal, Asks Judge
to Show Mercy.
WIFE AND DAUGHTER
ARE PRESENT IN COURT
Former Banker Accepts Lorton
Term Without Sign of Emotion.
Praised by Lawyer.

Harry V. Haynes this afternoon was
sentenced to four years and six months
in prison for violation of the national
banking laws while he WIS president CT
the Farmers and Mechanics National
Bank
Sentence was imposed by Justice Pey-
tor Gordon OF Criminal Division ! of
District Supreme Court where Haynes
was convicted one week ago today.
Haynes was found guilty on ID
counts. Justice Gordon fixed his sem
tence at four years and six months
under each count, and allowed them TO
run concurrently.
Haynes will be eligible for parole In
ID months. The maximum penalty the
court could have eXacted would have
been five years and $4,000 fine on each
OF the IA counts.
Will Not Appeal.
When the banker. now SIS years old
appeared for sentence. and was asked
by Justice Gordon If he had anything
to say, his only reply was that the
justice be "as merciiul as is consistent
with the courts duty
It had been announced by his coun-
sci. H. Winship Wheatley, just before
he came up for sentence that Haynes
would not appeal.
After Haynes had thrown himself on
the mercy CT the court Justice Gordon
said that several Of the counts under
which he was charged dealt with the
s7me transactions. and that numerous
persons in all walks of life had spoken
favorably Of the reputation OF Haynes.
who for many years was a leader in
District banking circles.
Wife and Daughter Present.
The Judge said that he had given
much thought to arrive at just sem
tence.
You may have been at first too in
dulgent and then began to deceive In
time OF stress" Gordon said
Persons are imprisoned to give them
time to reflect on their misdeeds. l am
satisfied that you would never repeat
the offense" The justice added that
HAYNES had suffered great embarrass-
ment and then ended by fixing the PEN
atty
z Mrs. Haynes and their daughter. Mrs
G. H. Young. were in court when SEN
tence was passed. Mrs. Louise T. Cham
bers. with whcm HAYNES said he had
become involved in the stock market
was not present.
The IA counts under which Haynes
WIS convicted were falSifying the rec
ords of the bank, falsifying report
10 the controller misapplication OF
funds and abstraction OF collateral held
in thu bank for Mrs. Chambers account
Will Go to LOrton.
HAYNES defense was that Mrs. Cham
bcrs, a customer of the bank, had made
bad investments on his advice and
that in seeking to restore her fortune
and protect the bank he used the bank S
money. He always denied having any,
thing to do with the false entries. The
bank lost about 100000 by his oper-
atoms.
Haynes will be taken to Lorton to
serve his sentence. There George Will
lard Bennett, youthful former teller at
the Farmers & Mechanics. is serving
nine-year sentence for an embezzle-
ment of S104,000
HAYNES took his sentence as he did
his conviction without visible emotion,
and then wss started back to jail
In announcing to the court that
HAYNES had no intenticn Of appealing,
Wheatley told Justice Gordon that
whatever Haynes faults have been,
they have been to some degree counter
balanced by the good he has done in
the psf
Past Services Cited.
"As the president of the Washington
clearing house for five years and their
secretary fer one year he rendered val
uab'e service" Wfeatley said. In the
time CT the Nations peril he rendered
arduous and effective service in the pro-
motion of the sale of Liberty bonds.
He has been foremost-parsdo xical as
it may S -em-in the promotion of those
things which appertain to good bank
ing The jury has found that in mo-
ment of stress he fell He is ready to
pay the penalty such as the court i'm
poses, but he asks that his life of 80
years as an upright active citizen in
those things which appertain to the
state and the city be considered as to
some degree counterbalancing the ver-
dict of the jury.
Whatever his faults may have been,
there is not the slightest suggestion In
this record that he has saved or has
hidden any part of the money which is
involved in this case"
Haynes was cheerful. but noncommit-
tai about his sentence. as he waited
in the cell room at the court house
with his wife and daughter to be
taken back to jail.
To attaches of the marshals Office
he expressed wish to go to Lorton
as soon as possible to start his SEN
tence.
The time OF his removal is up to the
80 If