Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-01-27
SENTENCE [
TO PRISON
Trials Slated For
IL Indicted BY
Grand Jury

Six men indicted by the Madison
county grand jury last week
pleaded guilty when arraigned on
the indictments Thursday and
were sentenced to Ohio penal in
stitutions by Judge James Z.
Bell
Amos Ripley, former London
taxi cab driver, was sentenced for
one to 20 years in the penitentiary
on indictment for kidnapping in
connection with the attempted
robbery of Chester Swope, London
druggist, in December 1948, while
Swope was enroute home in
cab.
Aaron Rowe, Mt Sterling, also
indicted for kidnapping in the
same case was placed on five
years probation and released.
Ernest Gosch and Herman Kiz-
zie, indicted for operating motor
vehicle without the owners con-
sent, also got one to 20 years.
Gosch was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary and Kizzie to Mansfield
Reformatory.
Herbert Straley, indicted for
forgery and Willie Campbell. in
dicted for operating a motor ve-
hicle without the owners con-
sent were each sentenced to the
Ohio pen for one to 20 years.
Charles Donaldson, indicted for
altering a check, was sentenced
to the Mansfield Reformatory one
to 20 years.
Sylvester Sargent indicted for
assault and battery, was sentenced
to 80 days in the Madison county
Jail and is to pay cost of his case.
Placed on probation by the court
were six other defendants.
They are: Clarence Thompson,
breaking and entering in the night
season and grand larceny; Cecil
Wallin, insufficient funds. one
year and Albert Rogers, operating
motor vehicle without the own
ers consent, one year; Betty Car
penter, forging and uttering. one
year; Gladys Glass Thomas, fail
ure to provide, one year and An
derson North, failure to provide
one year
Trials Slated
Trials for II other defendants
were slated by the court following
their pleas of not guilty.
Dates assigned for the trials
and the charges on which they
were indicted are: Homer j. Self,
forging and uttering, four counts,
February 16; Bernice Humphrey.
assault and battery, February
20; William Edison Deyo, arson.
and Homer Quinn Miller, arson,
February %, Richard Miller
breaking and entering an
uninhabited dwelling in the night
season and grand larceny, Feb. 27
| and March 2; James Jones, break
ing and entering an uninhabited
dwelling in the night season and
| grand larceny, March 6 and March
9; Harry Teets, breaking and en-
tering an uninhabited dwelling in
the night season and grand lar
ceny, March 13; Gerald Coe, grand
larceny, March 10; George Vance,
failure to provide, March %:
Harry B. Campbell, failure To
provide, April 6.
Henry Clifton, indicted on a
charge of reckless operation, was
given $50 and costs with the fine
suspended.
Sentence was postponed on Rob-
ert Davis, indicted for breaking
and entering an uninhabited dwell
ing in the night season and grand
larceny, after he entered a plea
of guilty.
Sentence was also postponed on
Josephine Millstead, indicted on
four counts of forging and utter
ing.
Robert Emery, London. indicted
on charge of arson, in connect
ion with the fire al the Peter +.
Langian property, Lotspeich Ave.
pleaded not guilty and was liber-
| ated on his own recognizance,
pending a hearing on later date.
Another indictment against
Amos Ripley, sentenced for kid
mapping, on six counts of forgery
is to be disposed of later by Pros
ecutor Forrest Sidener.
An indictment for grand lar
ceny against Lawrence Bucher,
already serving a sentence from
Ross county at the London Prison
Farm will be pending against him
on expiration of his sentence.
county officials indicated.
MCDANIEL HAS OPERATION