In a history-making action, Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman imposed death sentences yesterday on two spies convicted of stealing the atomic bomb secret for Soviet Russia and sentenced a third spy to thirty years in a Federal penitentiary.
Julius Rosenberg, 32 years old, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Ethel, 35, received the death penalty. They are parents of two sons, Michael 8, and Robert, 4. Morton Sobell, 34, an electronics expert, escaped death penalty only because his complicity was not proved equal to that of the Rosenbergs. He and his wife, Helen, are parents of a girl, Sydney, 11 years old, and a son, Mark, 18 months old.
The jury that on March 29 convicted all three of conspiracy to commit wartime espionage made no recommendation for mercy. Judge Kaufman showed none. He …show more content…
"This case has reached such importance that your sentence will be radioed around the world in three minutes. We are not at war with the Soviet Union, although the Soviet Union is regarded as an enemy. Who knows but that tomorrow the Soviet Union and the United States may reach an accord?"
Mr. Bloch said Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally, convicted of treason, received terms of ten to fifteen years. In defense of Sobell, Mr. Phillips said he had been "kidnapped and abducted" from Mexico last year so that he could be arrested in Laredo, Tex. Mr. Saypol agreed that Sobell had been "kicked out" of Mexico as a deportable alien.
Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, 69-year-old mother of Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass, sobbed in her small apartment at 64 Sheriff Street when she heard of the death sentence on her daughter. A widow whose husband died three years ago, Mrs. Greenglass awaits the sentencing of her 29-year-old son today. David and his wife, Ruth, are parents of two small children. Ruth Greenglass was cited in the indictment as a co-conspirator, but not as a
Julius Rosenberg, 32 years old, an electrical engineer, and his wife, Ethel, 35, received the death penalty. They are parents of two sons, Michael 8, and Robert, 4. Morton Sobell, 34, an electronics expert, escaped death penalty only because his complicity was not proved equal to that of the Rosenbergs. He and his wife, Helen, are parents of a girl, Sydney, 11 years old, and a son, Mark, 18 months old.
The jury that on March 29 convicted all three of conspiracy to commit wartime espionage made no recommendation for mercy. Judge Kaufman showed none. He …show more content…
"This case has reached such importance that your sentence will be radioed around the world in three minutes. We are not at war with the Soviet Union, although the Soviet Union is regarded as an enemy. Who knows but that tomorrow the Soviet Union and the United States may reach an accord?"
Mr. Bloch said Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally, convicted of treason, received terms of ten to fifteen years. In defense of Sobell, Mr. Phillips said he had been "kidnapped and abducted" from Mexico last year so that he could be arrested in Laredo, Tex. Mr. Saypol agreed that Sobell had been "kicked out" of Mexico as a deportable alien.
Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, 69-year-old mother of Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass, sobbed in her small apartment at 64 Sheriff Street when she heard of the death sentence on her daughter. A widow whose husband died three years ago, Mrs. Greenglass awaits the sentencing of her 29-year-old son today. David and his wife, Ruth, are parents of two small children. Ruth Greenglass was cited in the indictment as a co-conspirator, but not as a