Show CONVICT DEMANDS LONGER SENTENCE Wants Prison Stay Extended to 20 Years New York Some York Some m mysterious but powerful attraction not shared by his fellow fellow- guests has bas e endeared Sing Sing so greatly to Joseph Berner that he has announced his Intention of asking the courts to extend his stay at that famous hostelry to 20 years Jears As It is fa Is Berner who Is twenty-four twenty and once resided In n Brooklyn Is In I for tor the paltry period of from five to I Iten ten years and ond that Is not enough for for him And since he has hns been there since May 6 6 he should have bave no illusions Illusions about the tine place now County Judge Taylor In Brooklyn who Imposed this apparently Inadequate Quat quate sentence upon Berner for third degree robbery received a letter from the convict In which he threatens to appeal to the Supreme court In White Plains on a writ of habeas corpus unless unless un un- un less Judge Taylor sentences him as ns a n second offender Under the Baumes law v which was just made to order for men with Berner's Berners Berners Berner's Berners Berner's Ber- Ber ners ner's odd passion for prison he would receive a sentence of from ten to twenty years as a n second offender The communication was the tine second received ed from Berner by Judge Taylor Tay Tay- lor In the first Berner called the tine Judges Judge's attention to the fact that he was arrested In Pennsylvania Pennsyl In n 1921 for tor the felony of bringing a stolen automobile Into the state The charge was not pressed In Pennsylvania and he be was returned to Brooklyn where he ire stole the car and there pleaded guilty to petty larceny and was given R a 0 suspended sentence Judge Taylor who does not believe In coddling criminals refused to be moved by Berners Berner's argument He Be pointed out courteously but firmly that petty larceny Is only a n misdemeanor misdemeanor meanor and so he is not a n second offender offender of of- fender under the tine Baumes law And be he will not be bullied from that position he said by Berners Berner's threats of legal action |