Place Gimmey On Probation

Place Gimmey On Probation
Show Mercy to Man Whose Blow Killed Wife
Raymond C. Gimmey, 24 years old, held since Oct. 18 on a manslaughter charge for causing the death of his wife, Ida, by striking her in the throat during a quarrel, was free today on probation for five years after he pleaded guilty Thursday before Circuit Judge George W. Sample.
"I can't find it in my heart to send this man to prison," Judge Sample said after listening to Gimmey, visibly grief-stricken, tell of the quarrel that led to the fatal blow.
Two new aspects of the case were divulged int he brief court trial Thursday afternoon when Gimmey revealed that his wife had a tendency to bleed profusely, even from the slightest cuts, and Prosecutor Albert J. Rapp said that Mrs. Gimmey, before she died in the hospital, admitted drinking before she came home and 1:30 in the morning and provoking the quarrel.
The hemmorhage in a blood vessel in her neck was checked by hospital authorities but suddenly broke out again after she had been taken to her room and she died of suffocation before the bleeding could be stopped.
Prosecutor Rapp said that Mrs. Gimmey had taken all the blame for the quarrel when she was questioned at the hospital and refused to sign a complaint against her husband.
Gimmy testified that he struck a "blind, back hand blow," at his wife after she had kicked him.
Rev. Henry Yoder, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, testified that Gimmey had always had a good reputation among church members and that, as far as he knew, his conduct had been exemplary.
"This is as near a borderline case between manslaughter and accidental death as could be found," John W. Conlin, attorney appointed for Gimmey, declared when he pleaded for a probationary sentence.
Prosecutor Rapp declared that
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Gimmey had suffered inwardly more than he would for any long prison term and that he favored a light prison sentence.
Judge Sample ordered that Gimmey be placed on probation for five years and pay court costs of $100. Gimmey said, after he left the courtroom, that he had not decided whether he would remain in Ann Arbor or go to Shepherd, where his two-year-old son, Raymond, jr., is being cared for by relatives.
Four other persons arraigned on criminal charges Thursday afternoon were sentenced to prison terms in Ionia reformatory by Judge Sample.
George Wright and Harry Crosby, Ypsilanti Negros, who pleaded guilty to a charge of purse snatching, were give one to 15 years in the reformatory with a recommendation of one year. Another Negro from Ypsilanti, William Wheeler, was given a similar sentence for breaking and entering.
David Forshee, 22 years old, Sylvan township farm laborer, charged with stealing oats from a neighboring farmer, pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny from a building and was sentenced to one to four years at Ionia reformatory with a recommendation of one year. Buxton pleaded not guilty when arraigned in the morning but changed his plea.
James Warden, 22 years old, Sylvan township, charged jointly with Buxton, was placed on probation for five years and ordered to pay $50 costs.