[samtheman]

Prison Term for Fur Thief

James Isaacs, 89 years old, of Rosedale, Queens, the ex-convict leader of a trio of thieves, including a young wife who were believed to have defrauded many furriers in this city while posing as customers, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Allen in General Sessions to a term in Sing Sing of ten to twenty years. On April 10, last, Alfred Quinn, 80, received a smiliar term from Judge Allen, and the latter's wife, Margaret, 21, was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the Women's Reformatory at Bedford Hills. All had been convicted in the theft of a fur coat, valued at $2,600, from the R. & R. Furriers Corporation, at 6 West Fifthy-seventh Street, last Winter.

Is it too late to get a few things clarified in this story? (In particular, a few of the numbers.)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Is it too late to get a few things clarified in this story? (In particular, a few of the numbers.)

3's have been looking like 8's lately. I believe the ages of the perps named are 39 and 30, not 89 and 80. Even so, 20 years for heisting a fur coat seems pretty harsh in today's terms.