Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-10-06 | Page 3 | Bigamist is Given Big Sentence

frederick carlton Is mobbed by men who were his friends new york oct 2 frederick C carlton aho vho a as convicted of three charges ot bigamy and one 0 grand larceny in brooklyn was today sentenced to an aggregate term ot nineteen years in state prison on the first indictment that of marrying mary ogorman while his first wife was alive sentence waa suspended for marrying mary J while he had another wife living a sentence of five years was imposed and for bigamy in marrying lulu kettering of rochester a sentence of four years was given on the charge of grand larceny in drugging and robbing in the united states navy carlton was sentenced to ten years carstons Carl tons counsel made a plea for leniency because of carlious Car lions ill health and said a long sentence bould mean practically a life sentence judge aspinall was most bitter hi his denunciation of the prisoners crimes and said h was convinced that the prisoner attempted murder when he robbed continuing judda aspinwall said you are at heart a villain a murderer a swindler and a thief and I 1 am sorry tha I 1 cannot send you to the electric chair just remember that your mother was a woman but you played with the love of woman and when you were through hem you turned them out into the world win their shame upon them you are onu of the most dangerous men in the country As he left the courtroom after ahlf denunciation carlton was met by a young woman who called him by name and began to weep exclaiming what the judge said was all true carlton laughed in the loung wom ans face and passed on when outside the building he was mobbed by a crowd of men many of whom had once been his neighbors but who then tried to strike him the mob numbered fully and the deputies who guarded carlton being handcuffed to him had great difficulty in saving him from serious injury they ran with the prisoner to a street car and in tills manner escaped from the mob