Show BIG BIli 61 FINE IMPOSED ON HERALD EDITOR Justice Hough Requires James Gordon Bennett Bennet to Pay FOR VICIOUS PUBLICATIONS I Personal Contained Indecent Ads of City's S Lowest Classes Now New cW k April April- 10 10 Jamos Gordon Gor Gor- don tion Bennett Rennett Bennt self confessed etl criminal proprietor of if f the New Herald was wac as a prisoner today In iii the ito Federal building and after aftem pleading gui guilty to all al tho the char charges f month made against him In connection with wih the lie publication of or the Heralds Herald's personal IHl nal column and throwing throwing throwing throw throw- ing himself elf on In the merc mercy of or time the court t was fumed fined This The Item Herald Herll company com corn pany also plea pleaded ed guilty as os Hid Thu 1 Manley Man Man- nn- nn 1 icy ley the advert advertising counsel counsEl The Tho line for COI the corporation aion was while was wa given a n nominal nominal nom inal fn fine of 1000 on un the ground that he lii- 11 was vas a 3 As AH soon onn as the sentences were wert passed pass pass- ed sd pl the s were were r remanded for tor 24 hours hourN In the custody of oC their counsel counsel coun coun- sel s-el former Cormer A Assistant 91 DI District Attorney Wilam William Rand nand at al the expiration of or which thc they wt were rc to tn be Imprisoned if I the mines lines itei e 1 not paid Bennett Bennet and Gillam Gilam saved cc themselves the all added e edl dl disgrace of actual imprisonment b by paying the fines The rhe conviction of or James Gordon Gor on Bennett marks marl the time en end of one ont o of the greatest journalistic crimes ever perpetrated per per- In this country and amid United States Judge lud Hough before whom he had to a appear personally liem flayed nayed h hun him ln Unmercifully mt 1 tilly denouncing the New York I Herald n as the lie t directory o of one of the time worst wont forms of vice In tho the city He lIe spoke of nf the t 1 IJ persona OI column n aa as a asa a stench in the nostrils of the corn com Bennett the court said ahl wa was the theal real al actor In In th the great at journalistic scandal and amid the real proprietor of the Herald the cloak of the New NewYork NewYork ew York Herald company and as the thC really t-eally Jull guilty person he was given ghen one of th the tho bl biggest floes fines Imposed on an nn In Individual In- In In 3 jears ears ar Was u Nervous nu Bennett appeared to be he intensely eb nervous pervous n as h he stood before tho ho bar hal o or of Justice to h pay por the penalty of or hi his crime possible had hal hp been donto done don to 03 treat thy th distinguished pris-oner pris with wih courtesy nn and n l lons Mr Ir Rant Rand and nd 1 Mr Me have ha hail vJ J lh t ii o v ch 1 i I dla v v lOCI thi I lt itis PIR t O i huT through the proceedings Judge Rough nough however hO treated the theCle case Cle In tIme the most ost serious manner and when he lie he ht began his hiI denunciation Q of cC the Jn tiie tle they stood with wih downcast yew 11 11 Mr Rand began hegan the proceedings b by declaring that Bennett rind and Giam would wll withdraw aw their previous pleas of or not guilty and amid enter new ne picas pleas of guit guilty The Fhe c defendants Cen ans Bennett t and GIllam Gil Gillam Gl lam now withdraw their pleas plus of or no nOI guilt guil said ald alc Mr Ir Hand Han and nn offer to tc pl plead gul to the time Indictment as aR filed l. l fh The court How about th the matter of or the time I United States s versus th time the Herald company company com corn pany Mr Ir Stimson In that cise case the the plea fi of guilty has been entered nn and he the defendant stan stands s for sentence At this point Bennett and ant Giam wr werft technically called caled to the bar A As Ashey they hey stood there them tho he court Informed them hem thor of nf the tho crime charged against them hem and notified them of tImely their rights concluding by hy asking each what hi his plea plean was n Guilty Guily replied James Gordon Ben n net et t. t Guly Guilty mi said aid Gillam Giam Judge Hough thereupon passed sen- sen ence tence upon the prisoners who wimp remained remain ed cd standing before him him and on lh time the herald lerald company |