Show Hamai s per continuance of friday ahe arguments for a new trial in the caso case of li haray aray hammond were resumed yesterday before judge 0 bartch judge bartch overruled the motion for a new trial and assistant attorney howat asked that sentence be pronounced mr whittemore Whitte moro made a pathetic and touching T plea pica for morcy on the bitoy he asked that on oil account of his youth he be dealt with leniently lie he was so young youn M he ha could not haye have realized the full extent of the crime or tha consequences of hit his shooting counsel said the lads mother ought to be ba considered in the clise and all things considered conti dered lie he thought the lightest ligh sentence Een tence allowed by the law fur for that offense luense murder in hl the second degree would amply meet all the ends of justice attorney attorney y howat how at tho youth of the boy is tho the only miti mitigating latin l atin circumstance cum stance in the case had he been older the verdict would have benn been murder in tho the first demee degree F the prosecution cution however will be satisfied fied with a sentence of fifteen years veirs in the reform school harry hammond was told to tand up and his bia honor feelingly addressed tho abo boy in substance as follows it now becomes the duty of the court to inform you that a jury of twelve men have found you guilty of murder in the second degree one of the most atrocious crimes which it is possible for any ore one to commit I 1 watched the case all through 0 with the hape that something thin would turn up in the evidence which would show that you had bad acted by a mistake or anad verdantly vor dantly but ut nothing appeared to show that such had been the case I 1 will say that the j jury u ry gave tile lae ca case ae close and marked attention impressed with the fact that they were dealing with a mere mera boy one ot of the severest tasks I 1 havo have over ever been called on to perform it is now my duty to do doand and when I 1 consider the crime of which you have ideen been convicted that of killing ar an infant leniently as I 1 feel towards you I 1 cannot overlook your your crime to the extent your counrel desires desi the court might sentence you to a term in the penitentiary of ten tei years or even extending to life 7 but I 1 will take into consideration your youth which w is ia tile tho only miti mili eting C circumstance and I 1 hope you will yet reform and be somewhat afan of an honor to your mother and that your punishment will be the means of restoring you to true boyhood and making a man of you the fien sentence of the court is that you be taken by the united states to the district of columbia and there lie be confined in the reform school for a period of fifteen years the sending of the boy to tho district Dittri i ct of columbia reform school was at the suggestion of the attorney general made inside to assistant district attorney howat it being in the discretion of the iho united state to decide as to what disposition will be made of young boys nho commit crimes of murder jyerald JT erald JUDGE LYNCH IN IOWA ottumwa la nov 22 fred Gustave neon a laborer aged 32 who recently came to this city was hanged by a mob on main street at ottumwa at this afternoon ter noon last night iii lit ho he enticed a 4 year old daughter daugh ter of jonas sax bax into a room of a beardin boarding house and criminally assaulted her the child now lisa lies at the point of death this afternoon gustavo san ban was brought to Ji justice stice office for a per examination A fight ensured there between the father grandfather and other relatives lyes of the tha child and the officers the culprit was finally wrested from the hands of the alio officers and dragee into the street here the mothr mother of the child stood with a rope and gave into the hands of tho the mob I 1 it alis immediately placed about the wretches neck and aud ho ha was han hansco ed to the bannister of the outside stairway A great crowd had by this time timo collected no eh ort was made to cut the villian down after hanging 0 twelve minutes the rope broke and the body bod y rell fell to the pavement it was seized by the officers and hurried to thea ail the mob fearing that life was not yet vet extinct fullone dand demanded demand td the body mayor laferne assured them the fellow was dead and ordered them to disperse they refused finally a com coin biorn tho the crowd was elected to view the remains thoy re life was extinct and the mob dispersed for a timo it looked as if tho the mob would not havo been satisfied sats fied until it had taken another life tho trial of ed walton for the murder of a young b girl by malpractice began this morning 0 in judge babbs court when the mob hade bade a break for the jail some ore yelled lets lt 0 get walt wal aln on but fortunately he had been spirited away by the officers nd no further trouble ensued BEATS IVES chicago 7 nov 22 schiefer and ives bil billiardi ats began a five night bal keline contest for and a pro rato of the gate receipts tonight the playing was tame from 0 13 the outset the night ending in favor favor by a score of SOO to ives highest run ore ives average 20 2332 23 32 ors 24 8 32 UNCLE dusx DEAD MADISON wis bisnov nov 2 21 I 1 general jeremiah rusk ex cx secretary of agriculture died here at his home in viroqua at 8 this morning thou thong not the announcement that the end had come to the life of this strong strongly Y individual character in tho political life of the nation caused a profound nd hock heck ho he has bien been ill some time and dangerously 0 but up ill to a day or two ago it was thought his iron constitution would pull him through throw Agh li since however his constant failing strength has led his friends to anticipate the worst uncle jerry as lie was affection affectionately known was a familiar figure 0 to every resident of this city ciar no other man was ever brought out here it in official life with ro eo many many friends political and nonpolitical non political in the wisconsin capital as he during 0 his three cerms as governor flags are at half staff on all the public Luil buildings dings 0 anti and a public meeting is bein being 0 held in governor pecks offlie office ce to arrange for a s special train to viroqua to attend the funeral cheti ceable ible began in th a form of dyspepsia res resulting tilting in an enlargement of the prostrate gland followed by an abscess on the liver finally the involving b gland land seven weeks ago he was ob obliged lit in to take to his bed on nov au W it was decided that a surgical operation was necessary and an all opening made and s r drainage tube inserted the removal and reinsertion caused him excruciating agony from time to time but tile fatal ending was wag oven even then not considered cert certain up to ten tell minutes of his death lie he talked with his watchers and then api cared to drop into a peaceful sleep from which he be passed into the hereafter without a struggle A post mortem will be held to determine the immediate imms diate cause of his death the funeral has been set for friday tile the whole family was at his bedside when the general breathed hit his last his last words spoken with an effort acre 1 I a am i dying I 1 am djini the funeral will ii ill be held in this city on friday and the remains will lie in state at the methodist church the day previous |