Roosevelt Standard | 1931-02-19 | Page 8 | "Meanest Man in World" Given Term in Prison

ic meanest man in world given term in prison new kew yoac junies F finell fariell heard himself culled called the meanest man in the lie word by justices freschl alii mcinerney rind and featherston Feath erslon recently lu in the alie court of special i sessions lie he had previously been apen convicted of attempting to oppress money from sick all and crippled men who aho sell their wares in subway trains by falsely identifying himself as a u special railroad policeman you have no excuse for picking on poor unfortunates the cobit declared we impose 0 on n iou tin an indeterminate sentence 1 in ai tile the new york reformatory mill ith an expressed asli vasli that aliat you be given tile lie limit term hundreds of casks cases come before us but I 1 this his Is the first of its kind to be heard here you can tie be classed as the worlds meanest man james boyd isoye claimed that farrell showed him film a state railway police badge nud and asked tor for sri it you want protection to sell your postal cards on the L it 11 T subway in ill queens detective john P worle werle of tho hunters point quad received many other complaints from tile train salesmen and arranged for a ine meeting eting between two of them and faitell fairell lie he claimed that the arrest of farrell was made after the pil lom tieni 15 from bah of tile salesmen