Judge Bell’s Hard Line on City Crime

Seattle.—In passing sentence on James and John Kelly, the two men recently convicted by a jury of participation in the hold-up and robbery of Henry Anderson, Judge Bell repeated his determination to impose heavy sentences for felonies committed in this city. The two men were given fourteen years and ten years respectively in the penitentiary. Patrick Murphy, the leader of the three men who committed the crime, was sentenced two weeks ago to imprisonment for fifteen years. In announcing that sentence, Judge Bell said that it was only because the robbery was committed without the use of dangerous weapons that the full term of twenty years was not imposed. The same consideration influenced the court in the sentences imposed today. In his remarks, Judge Bell referred to his recent practice of passing heavy sentences upon convicted criminals and declared that he should continue to do so in the hope of deterring the dangerous element from the commission of crime.