Richard Vernon Smith, Jr., 18, convicted of smearing swastikas on synagogue walls and of setting a fire in a museum where the damages totalled $30, 000, was sentenced this week-end to a prison term of six to ten years.
Judge Hubert Calhoun, who sentenced young Smith, upbraided him for his anti-Semitism and told him to “forget the tommyrot about Jews. ” The youth, according to police, had called himself a “superman, ” and had described himself as “a hater of Negroes and Jews and a follower of the Nazi beliefs of Adolf Hitler. “
Young Smith confessed that he had smeared swastikas in yellow paint on the walls of two synagogues here, and had made a bonfire of 160 paintings in the Museum of Arts and Crafts here.
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