Show MURDERER TOO YOUNG TO HANG chicago lite sentences were am posed hy judge albert S barnes on tuesday upon three youthful holdup men who pleaded guilty to murder and for highway robberies corn bitted last may george plummer 17 ears old was sent to the joliet prison for life thomas kelly 20 years old and thomas sherman 18 years old his companions were given life terms in the pontiac penitentiary as punishment for the robberies they were not held responsible with plummer on the murder charge before sentence was passed there was presented the usual spectacle of judge and prosecutor debating in open court the advisability of hanging the boy murderer he s too small to hang so send him to prison tor life was the final decision |