People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — M’KANE TO SING SING. [ARTICLE]

M’KANE TO SING SING.

Six Year*’ Sentence Given the Gravesend Political Boss. New York, Feb. 21.— Six years’ imprisonment in Sing Sing prison was the sentence passed Monday upon John Y. McKane, the once great boss of Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay. Both McKane and his friends were appalled, for they had expected the minimum punishment of two years on account of the recommendation of the jury for the. convicted man. Upon the opening of court Judge Bartlett sentenced McKane, after having overruled motions for a new trial and for a stay pending appeal. McKane, when asked if he had anything to say, replied: “I do not know that I can say anything but what I said on the stand during this trial. I have never done anything to anyone as far as 1 know. I never did anything directly or indirectly wrong with regard to the election, nor did I ever counsel anyone else to do anything wrong. I again say that lam not guilty of any offense against the law.” Supreme Judge Edgar M. Cullen just before 10 o’clock Monday night signed an order for the prosecution to show cause before himself at special term Friday morning why a certificate of reasonable doubt should not be issued upon which a motion for a new trial in the McKane case may be favorably entertained. The order was coupled with a stay of the execution of McKane’s six years’ sentence until a decision is rendered in the present application.