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Show CiLYSjAIL.SENieiGE.IS D2ATH SENTENCE FOR HIM Jailer Sol Kimball Is entertaining royalty roy-alty In the city Jail. The royal personage person-age who is partaking of the hospitality and bean soup of the genial Jailer 1 A. F, Young, who is styled "the King of the "Tenderloin." - King was tried in Police court Friday afternoon on a charge of assault and battery, and waa convicted. As a result, . he will serve a sentence of one hundred i days at hard labor. King was arrested a few days ago on ihe complaint of a woman who alleged that while walking with him, he suddenly sudden-ly turned upon her and struck her in the face with his fist, after which he kicked her in the stomach. Young pleaded not guilty to assault . , and battery and using obKeene language, lan-guage, upon his arraignment earlier In the week, and the case wa set for Friday Fri-day afternoon. . When the case was called. Young said that he desired to change his plea to guilty in each case, and aPked for permission to make an 1 . explanation in his own behalf, before sentence was passed. , Prosecutor Wllley was given the floor , , andveaid that Young had called the woman wo-man vile names, while walking with her at 8 o'clock Monday morning, and when the two had reached Third South and Second East streets, in company 1 "with another man and woman. Young had struck her with his fist and knocked her down, after which he had kicked her in the stomach. Prosecutor . Willey characterized the case as an exceptionally ex-ceptionally vicious one, and that the gravity of the offense was accentuated by the fact that Young is'a tall, strong and robust man, while the woman assaulted as-saulted Is small and slender. Young begged for the leniency of the court. "I came here Just before election," elec-tion," he said, "and have been su"fferirg from asthma. I worked . and lived in Commercial street On the night that it is said I assaulted this woman, I was Pick, and went home early. I went to bed and the landlady seeing my condition, condi-tion, gave me several" quinine capsules and a half pint of whisky, which I drank. ' "Then I didn't know any more until I 'found myself in Jail. I do not know what happened. I am telling you the truth. Judges Just as surely as I have an old, gray-Uaired mother at home waiting wait-ing for me to come back to her. "I cannot say that I was innocent I do not know that I did what they said I did. But I do know this if I get a long sentence in the city Jail,- It means a death sentence for me. I will pawn everything I have, and walk out of town without an overcoat rather than be sent to Jail, for I know that I will never come out alive. It is Just like passing death sentence on me." Prosecutor Willey recommended to the court that a sentence of fifty days in Jail for each offense would meet the ends of Justice, in consideration of the prisoner's prison-er's affliction. , "It's an injustice," 6ald Young as he tottered, and seemed about to fall. "The charge is assault and battery on a woman." said the Judge, "and it is an evident fact that you assaulted and beat her. That offense is in the eyes of this court, a most serious one. The Prosecutor, Prose-cutor, In view of the fact of your illness, ask9 for a smaH fine, altogether too small a fine. I will not establish a precedent pre-cedent in this court, of giving the assailant as-sailant of a woman a light sentence, under un-der any clrmumstance, and would be more than unwilling to give a light sentence sen-tence where the case is so aggravated as this one appears to he. "On the charge of using obscene language, lan-guage, the defendant is discharged. On the charge of assault and battery, the defendant is sentenced to serve one hundred days In the city Jail at hard labor." la-bor." Young was overcome by the sentence, and he staggered to the prisoners' bench, where he broke down and wept. He waa led from the courtroom, his body shaking and quivering with the sobs that he seemed unable to control. |