Evening star., 1952-12-16
School Painter Gets
20 Years for Assault
.0n Montgomery Girl

A Montgomery County school
painter was stenced to 20 years in
the Maryland Penitentiary today
for assault with intent to rape a
9-year-old school pupil.
The painter. Glendon Elwood
Mccoy. q, of Route /, German
town, Md, was convicted by a jury
in County Circuit Court at Rock
vile last night.
He tainted when the verdict was
returned and sentencing was de-
ferred until this morning. The
sentence was the maximum ne
could receive under the verdict
of guilty without capital punish
ment.
Judge ScOlds School Board.
In passing sentence Judge Sted-
man Prescott criticized the Mont
gomery County School Board for
hiring man like Mccoy.
There ought to be some better
method of screening school en-
ployes than that which allows a
man with four previous convic-
tions to work in public schools"
the judge said.
Mccoy previously had been con-
victed on two charges of forgery
and two of auto larceny.
THE people of this county are
entitled to have their children
protected when they are at
school," Judge Prescott declared.
Asked by the judge if he had
anything to- say before sentence
was passed, Mccoy told the court
that he "had no animosity against
the jury" but he added that he
felt it was impossible for him to
"get an unbiased jury in Mont
gomery County"
Insists He Is Innocent.
To this Judge Prescott declared:
You had a completely fair trial.
. You haven't shown the Slight
est repentance.
Mccoy then interrupted.
1--we done nothing to repent
for" he said. I'm not guilty. You
can pass judgment on me now,
but there's another life besides
this one"
Judge Prescott also castigated
Mccoy for his outburst yesterday,
when he interrupted Assistant
States Attorney Thomas M. An
derson during the prosecutor
final arguments to call Mr.. An
derson "a liar"
Judge Prescott said Mccoy
showed a complete disrespect for
our system of government and
justice"
Carried Up to Jail.
The judge allowed Mccoy to
remain seated while he passed
sentence. When it was handed
down Mccoy Strengthened in his
chair and it appeared that he
might faint again. Sheriff's depu-
ties quickly lifted him from the
chair and half dragged him out
of the courtroom to the jail up
stairs.
Mccoy denied emphatically dur
ing the trial that he had assaulted
the child in the Lynnbrook Ele-
mentary School. She was the
States star witness and the de-
tense attorney was unable to shake
her Identification of her assailant
as she held the witness stand for
nearly 80 minutes. She wept re-
peatedly in Mr.. Smiths cross
examination.
Denies Identification.
The girl testified Mccoy took
her into mems room at the
school and molested her.
Mccoy admitted he was working
at the school that day, out said
he was enormously identified as
the assailant.
Mccoy said he had been te-
leased from the penitentiary in
March after spending 80 days or
more in solitary confinement be-
cause he had informed prison Of
f1cials of an escape plot and the
planners had threatened to kill
him.
Soon after his arrest on the as
sault charge, Mccoy fled from the
Bethesda police station. He was
recaptured about an hour later
behind the White Flint golf course
after a mile-long foot chase.
States Attorney Walter w.