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Show I WAS TOO FAT TO ROB J MAN IN NARROW ALLEY New York. June 20. Benjamin Fa-gan. Fa-gan. a lawyer of Osslning, will file a notice of appeal to the appellate division divis-ion from the convictloi and sentence'-of sentence'-of William Green, who is the fattest convict in Sing Sing, for burglary al leged to have been committed at Os fining. Green, who weighs 25S 1-2 pounds, was sentenced to prison under an indeterminate in-determinate sentence of three jears to three and a half years. He was accused ac-cused of having dragged Frank Baker Bak-er through an alleyway, nine and throe quarters inches wide bet.veen two brick buildings at Ossiniug and then robbing the man of $10. Green's counsel said today that on the appeal he will contend that such a fat man as Green could not have squeezed through the alley in question, ques-tion, no matter how iiC turned, and I if he had tried to get through he would have been wedged in the opening. |