4-Month Sentence for Number Writer

4-MONTH SENTENCE FOR NUMBER WRITER Judge Disputes Attorney's Statement on 'Experience' of Defendant Four months in the county jail was ordered yesterday for Joseph Wallace, 27, of 5733 Rogers avenue, Merchantville, after he pleaded guilty to engaging in a lottery. The term was imposed by Common Pleas Court Judge Clifford A. Baldwin. Wallace admitted he had a small quantity of numbers slips and $5.14 in cash derived from numbers sales in his pockets when arrested at Thirty-fourth and Federal streets by county detectives on May 17. Carl Kisselman, Camden attorney who defended Lou Barron, Philadelphia numbers baron, recently, was counsel for Wallace. Baron was fined $750 and given a suspended sentence by Judge W. H. Sharp, of Vineland, substituting for Judge Baldwin. Baldwin, before pronouncing sentence, asked Kisselman: "How long has this man been in the numbers business?" Kisselman answered: "Two weeks." "That's strange," Baldwin countered, "I have a paper here which says he forfeited $50 in Pennsauken township two years ago after he had been arrested on a lotery charge." Kisselman answered he did not think the prisoner had jumped his bail on that charge. He asserted Wallace was arrested "on suspicion" and put up the $50 and then forfeited it. The attorney averred the township police had no evidence to substantiate the lottery charge against Wallace. The numbers writer was arrested by County Detective Elmer Mathis who told Baldwin the prosecutor's office had received a number of complaints that a man was engaged in a lottery business on Federal street. He and Detective Joseph Benni watched Wallace for some time before making the arrest, he said.