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Efforts to Save Tillie Dale Fail to Keep From Serving a Jail SentenceeoEffort* to have Tlllte Dale, pleading guilty to conducting a bawdy house, released on probation, failed late yesterday when Judge 8. J. M.1 McCarrell imposed a sentence of four months In jail and a $50 tine. The Court stated that it has not been customary to suspend sentence In such cases and that to do so in this • , instance with no unusual clrcum-„ , stances would establish a bad precedent. /■One of the surprises of the session came when Mrs. Annie S. Slmoncttl,, a probation officer of the _ court, was called by the defense and upon being asked whether she though the Dale woman a fit one to have charge of children nt a nursery replied in the affirmative. District Attorney Michael E. Stroup at once asked Mrs. Simonettl if she thought public opinion would support her in such a stand and whether she would want to place any of the chilflTen on probation under her in the care of the Dale woman. She answered that she had not thought of such circumstances.Itobert Wallace and Robert Stacker, attorneys, appeared in behalf of the Dale woman. After asking for a suspension of sentence Mr. Stucker read excerpts from a number of letters which the woman has been receiving from her husband who is now in service in France. The Court only remarked that it was well that she had the conlldence of her husband.Charles Umholtz, Wiconlsco. pleading guilty to a serious charge preferred by a 16-year-old girl, was ordered to pay a $50 fine and serve four months in jail. The Court refused to suspend sentence as asked, declaring that it would bo a dangerous example to release a married man on probation even though he entered a plea of guilty. A young girl whose mother said she was incorrigible, was ordered to be taken to the Sleighton Farms School.:s
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Harrisburg Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jul 02, 1918
Page 5
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