The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-03-24
CHICKEN THIEVING
RING BROKEN AS 8
RECEIVE SENTENCE
Ninth C0nfesses Shotgun Theft
Is Held for Sentence in
Willmar Court
WOMAN GETS ONE YEAR
Judge Lectures Young Persons
in Court; Sympathizes
With Parents

Five men ana one woman StdIISu
prison terms this week after pleading
guilty in district court to charges OF
larceny as members of a petty THEW
ing gang which operated in Redwood
and other Minnesota counties during
recent months. Two others were Civ
en- suspended sentences and the ninth
awaits sentence.
Oliver Hagen, Morgan, who received
the heaviest sentence, was taken to
saltwater by Sheriff L. ]. Kise Mon
day to serve term not to exceed
two and one-half years. Frances
Hagen, his wife, was taken the same
day to Shakopee where she will be
confined for a period not to exceed
one year.
Marvin Kopischke, also of Morgan,
was sentenced to the state reforma-
tory at st. Cloud for not more than
one and one-haf years, and to pay
court costs of $3.50. Ferdinand
Schmidt of near Morgan was also
sentenced to st. Cloud for term not
to exceed one year and to pay court
costs of $685.
Two in County Jail
Leslie Wagner and Robert Wood
are confined in the county jail for the
part which they played in the chicken
stealing deals. Wagner was given
three months and costs of $3.50 and
Wood, three months and costs OF
S49.6O. Two of Woods three months
are to be suspended on good behavior.
He is to report to County Attorney
George A. Barnes eve1v month for a
year after his release. The fine is to
be paid at his earliest convenience.
Sheriff Kise took Kopischke and
Schmidt to st. Cloud Wednesday.
The six chicken thieves were ar
raigned before District Judge Albert
H. Emerson after they had entered
pleas of guilty in justice court at
Morgan to charges Of stealing pro-
perty in Redwood county and near
Minneapolis and Faribau1t.
Seventh Sentenced
William Vohs, Faribault, the sew
enth man Of the gang, was arrested
and taken before the justice of the
peace at Morgan late Thursday after
moon where he entered plea OF
guilty. He was taken before Judge
Emerson at Marshall Tuesday and re-
ceived three months suspended sent
ence and costs Of $500.
Raymond Everett, &c, who lives
north of Morgan, was taken into
justice court at Olivia and entered
a plea of guilty to charge of steal
ing a gun in Morton last fall while
the owner was attending church. If
he cannot secure money for bail to
await the spring term of court, he
will be allowed to go to Willmar this
week to receive sentence.
Everett first pleaded not guilty,
and Deputy Sheriff Beatty, with
Kopischke and Schmidt, went to Oil
via to act as witnesses, but he chang
ed his plea before they arrived.
Albert Jacobson, 20, south of Nor
gan, the ninth accused man of the
gang, entered plea of guilty before
the justice Of the peace at Morgan,
Friday and was fined.
Ole Lee of the Minnesota Criminal
Apprehension bureau, was in Red
wood Falls Saturday and took finger
prints of the gang members. -
Court Room Thronged
Not since the Greene murder case
in 1921 has such a large crowd
thronged the halls and the court
room to hear a case. Judge Emerson
told the young persons after pro-
nouncing their sentences, at is not
you young people who are sitting
here before me that I am sentencing,
but your fathers and mothers are the
ones who will have to suffer. They
are the ones who will be confined, not
behind the cold, bleak walls of the
prison, but behind the walls of SON.
less and daughterless homes"