“Sentences Were Heavy,” Toronto Globe. June 10, 1912. Page 09.
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Judge Winchester Sends Four to the Penitentiary.
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Twenty-three Convicted Prisoners Sentenced at the Close of Sessions – First Offenders Shown Mercy and Given Warnings.
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Some heavy offences were imposed by Judge Winchester at the closing of the Sessions yesterday, four of the twenty-three prisoners being sent for long terms to Kingston Penitentiary, and five for terms of from one to two years in the Central Prison,.The cases of Rev. G. M. Atlas and the three men concerned in the flotation of the Canadian Eatables Co. are dealt with elsewhere. Other sentences were: Four years for Alfred James Haggett and Robert W. Ewers. Haggett got a two-year sentence from Judge Denison on two charges of wounding, and a four-year sentence from Judge Winchester for housebreaking, all to run concurrently.
Ewers is not an ordinary criminal. He is an elderly man who induced a woman named Laura Payne to procure a young girl for him for an immoral purpose, and the Judge, in sending him to the penitentiary for four years, spoke sternly to him. Ewers looked quite dazed as he left the court. Laura Payne, the woman who helped him in his wicked purpose, was sent to the Mercer for two years. She wept bitterly when sentenced, especially when her counsel referred to the death of her baby, which died while she was in custody.
Gibson Shannon, the other man to go to the penitentiary, had served six years on the Toronto police force. He was found guilty of receiving some stolen jewelry, which had been lost by a visitor to the Horse Show. He received a three-year sentence.
Two Italians, Joseph Santia and Joseph Doizino, convicted of stabbing, were each given a year in the Central, along with Henry Roberts, a sneak thief.
The other prisoners sentenced were Charles Close, a West Toronto fireman, who received six months for an attempted indecent assault on a young girl; Fred Boisden, who got six months for theft; John Healy, who got twenty days for theft, and Walter Corner, a York farm, who was fined $25 for brutally beating an Upper Canada College boy whom he caught trespassing on his grounds.
Suspended sentences were passed on Guy Brothers, a youth who committed theft; J. W. McNulty, whom Haggett induced to accompany him on a housebreaking expedition; Hosea Curtis, a farmer, who struck his sister in a fit of bad temper; Henry Cromble, who pleaded guilty to receiving in the Shannon case; Sylvester Brown, a negro, who committed perjury, and Bertha Wilson, a shoplifter.
Sentenced were deferred until September on Milton W. De Lhorbe for conspiracy in the ‘Estables’ case; Wm. Edgar Hughes, who will appeal a conviction for carnal knowledge, and J. S. Keeping, convicted for false pretences.
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