Show URGES DEATH FOR FRAUDS WHO ASK FOR WAR FUNDS NEW V YORK Dec 22 Judge 22 Judge Malone Malone Malone Ma- Ma lone said saW in general sessions that prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- soliciting soliciting soliciting solicit solicit- convicted of fraudulently ing funds for war war charities should be punished with death The remark was made when the Judge ludge sentenced Eugene Jess Tess of 39 St. St Anns Ann's avenue the Bronx who had 1 been convicted on a charge of fraudulently obtaining money from a Chinese merchant in Mott street to Sing Sing prison for not less than one year and three months and also fined him hint 40 40 the amount Jess Tess was convicted of having obtained In imposing the sentence Judge Malone Malone Malone Ma- Ma lone turned to District Attorney Swann and said I I think Judge Swann Swarm you should use the power of your great office in inan inan inan an attempt to amend this law in the legislature so that an offense of this kind may be considered moral treason punishable with death This sentence is trifling Jess Tess is the first fake fale advertising so solicitor solicitor so- so I to be found guilty and sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- since the district attorney be beI began began be- be gan his investigation of the methods I of the per cent boys Jess Tess so solicited solicited so- so belted advertisements for the program of fi t concert which he lie said tho the AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican Red Cross society was g going to hold In the opera house Despite the protest of the Red Cross officials and of forty society women of New York Jess Tess used their names in soliciting advertisements The present law provides a maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum prison sentence of two years years and six months upon those convicted of fraudulent soliciting I |