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Judge Kaufman, one of the youngest (40) federal judges, had had only ten hours' sleep in a week, had spent long hours in prayer at his synagogue. Tearful Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, mother of convicted spies Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass, had visited him to plead for her children. "I have deliberated for hours, days and nights," said Judge Kaufman. "I have searched my conscience to find some reason for mercy. I am convinced, however, that I would violate the solemn and sacred trust that the people of this land have placed in my hands were I to show leniency...
After a brief recess, Judge Kaufman went back to the bench to sentence sullen Morton Sobell, because of his "lesser degree of implication," to 30 years. Next day, Judge Kaufman sentenced David Greenglass, the ex-Army sergeant who had fed atomic secrets to the Rosenbergs and whose testimony had convicted his sister and brother-in-law, to a milder 15 years because of his help to the Government...
...bomb-and such other secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
...Julius Rosenberg, 32, electrical engineer, who got all his education (College of the City of New York) at public expense, was coordinator for the spy ring-a highly placed figure who recruited men like Greenglass and dealt with the ring's big boss, Soviet Vice Consul Anatoli Yakovlev. Yakovlev fled home to Russia...
...Ethel Rosenberg, wife of Julius and sister of confessed Spy David Greenglass. A short, plump woman of 35, she lived with Julius and their two sons in a grubby, $51-a-month apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side and helped Julius collect and record vital espionage data...