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Show MUST GO TO PRISON i Three Year Sentence for Men Who Defrauded Laboring Men. San Francisco, Dec. 4. Charles Hickey, who gained notoriety recently by having been made the subject of prosecution by seven hundred women, patrons of a suit club he organized, was sentenced today by Superior Judge Frank H. Dunne to three ear3 in the state penitentiary at San Queji-Un. Queji-Un. However, It was not for Hlckey's suit club that he was convicted. He was convicted on the charge of having hav-ing defrauded laborers through the medium of an employment agency. Arthur J. Meadow, associated with Hickey in the agency, also was sentenced sen-tenced to a three-year term. Justice Must Be Given. In pronouncing sentence Judge Dunne acknowledged that there was a possibility that the charge against the defendant Avas technically Incorrect. Incor-rect. "But there is a spirit abroad," Judge Dunne said, "demanding a radical change in the criminal law and criminal crim-inal procedure that will not tolerate the side-tracking of justice because of a legal point In my opinion the time Is not far distant when it will no longer be possible to stay the hand of justice by means of technicalities." |
