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lo SanitariumBaltimore’s court of justice! showed mercy, Monday, upon the , 39-year old bandit who robbed, sportsman Askew Gatewood two years ngo. and who now is in , curably ill.- jJudge Sho^bow .-Plowed 1the holdup~man. Vernon Fields, to ' return to Pennsylvania where he will enter a hospital. The man has been suffering since 1937 from a lung disease.Paroled In PhillyFields was returned to Baiti-1 more to stand-trial in the 55.950 Gatewood robbery’ after he was1 paroled from a two-to-six year-term in F’hiladeiphia where he was; arrested on a similar charge.a with Philadidnhti i;..thontics confirmed the rport of . Albert Levin, attorney for Fields, t that the prisoner spent most of his time int the prison hospital in Philadelphia. and is so ill. that he; must be isolated and kept in bed. j . -Law- Not - Vindictive - jJudge Shcrbow told Lhe. thin, ail- ' inn Fictds Monday that even though the charge was serious. \.•■thclllavv. is.not vindictive. -He suspended sentence ger.rally for Fields on condition that he cn- 1 ter the Pennsylvania hospital..; there to rrmairi under supervision !: of the authroities there.Fields murmured to Judge ■ Sherhow. Thank you very much : Your Honor. Hxs wife was in court to accompany him’ on the trip back to Pennsylvania.• The man' pleaded guilty in the April 11. 1949 robbery of Mr. Gate- , wood who was bound and gagged I in his Edmondson Avc. home by, j three bandits who escaped with I c S950 in cash and 55.000 worth of jewlcry taken from his safe. |Same Robb«ry P«H*rn |Ironically, it was the same pat-: f !em of operation that led to the j a rapture of Fields and the other r f, wo men several months later ui'o Philadelphia.There • they were said to have ~ ntcred a prominent man's home, j ind to have bound him in the pro-1 e's of entering his safe.The man's daughter, however, an screaming into the street, nd frightened, the bandit trio ran a a watting car.Off-Duty Cop Joined In The intended victim. mean-hi!e. shook loose from his bounds, r.d ran into the street. The com-lotion attracted the attention of n off-duty policeman who was on i is pqych. and managed to get the } cense number of the get away i ar. IFields and the two companions j iter were traced, and all three ' rntcnccd to prison terms. The! (her two are still In prison in j ’hiladelphia. I
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Tue, Dec 18, 1951
Page 22
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