Show 3 YEARS METED T TO WAITER FOR EXTORTION TRY Conti Sentenced on Guilty Plea in Federal Case Attempted extortion in connection with the Peter David Levine kid kid- naping last February resulted in ina ina ina a year three-year federal prison sentence Monday for Secondo Frank Franl Conti year old waiter Conti who pleaded guilty last week to a charge of extortion was sentenced to three years at McNeil Island federal prison in Washington Washing Washing- ton tori state by Federal Judge Tillman D. D Johnson Arrested Here The waiter exonerated by federal agents of any participation in the actual or subsequent slaying of the year old Levine Levin youth in New Rochelle N. N Y was arrested in Salt Lake City when he attempted to chisel in on ransom money demanding for release of the youth Conti was trapped after writing a letter to the Rev Francis J. J H H. Coffin at New Rochelle asking him to send to the Rev A. A E. E Butcher at St. St Pauls Paul's Episcopal church in Salt Lake City A dummy package was prepared and sent to Conti from the home of the Rev Butcher with George D. D Wharton a taxi driver acting as messenger Conti was arrested immediately after receiving the package at a local bus station Held in Jail The arrest was made April 15 and Conti has since been held in inthe inthe inthe the county jail here Judge Johnson also ordered a year three-year term for Marvin Leon Workman on a Dyer act charge but the sentence means little since Workman is already serving a year three-year term in Leavenworth prison Kansas after being sentenced sentenced sentenced sen sen- in Illinois on IOn n October 31 and the term will run concurrently Workman was wanted on a 1937 grand frand jury indictment for allegedly alleged alleged- ly transporting a stolen car from Buhl Idaho to Bountiful |