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JAIL TERMS FOR STEALING COAL(Continued from page - one)men admitted it was the fust time they had ever committed a theft.Burke, who said he lived at 6(H) East Ridge road, Gary, is employed in the sheet mill at the Gary Works of the Illinois Steel company, but works only three clays every other week. Moore, who gave his addreEs at 840 Carolina, Gary, is also u mill worker.Both men' agred to work for the Crisnian Coal company to pay for the cost of the cbal tak and more too. '“If we ever get out of this, we will never get into any more scraps, both men chorused,You cannot do the things in Porter county that you do in .Gary and get away with it/’ Judge Rockwell told them.A threat on the part of the court to send them to the state penal farm where they would have- to work threw a scare* Into the men, but the scope of the offense did not Justify any such procedure in the eyes of the court. An expression from the complaining witness also Indicated that no severe measures were desired against the ;twpj men, but only protection aguinst * further depredations. :In passing sentence, Judge Rockwell modified his order to Include release of the two men at the expiration -of sixty days, providing they pay their fines and costs. The other thirty days will be suspended, and the men placed under six months* probation.Prosecutor Howard D. Clark recommended the men be punished as an example to others from the Calumet district.“If they are let oil easy, the word soon gets back to that section and other oots of law violation he said. •IMHDMARV UA«
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Valparaiso Vidette Messenger
Valparaiso, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 11, 1932
Page 7
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Porter C.
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