Show 1 PRESIDENT REFUSES I ITO TO INTERFERE IN I BEHALF OF VETERAN V NE YORK Juno President Roosevelt has hns just refused to intercede for an old union army vet vot ran who is isnow isnow now serving time timo for the tho part ho took recently in smuggling articles from France into th this s countr country Tho appeal to the president was made in behalf of Austin Montayne who until recently was as connected with a firm of importers import impart ers onta nc is now in the prison hospital on a Island in health Montane was vas sentenced to four months months' imprisonment and several so other indictments wore found a against him in addition to the one on whIch ho was sentenced The Tho men by whom he was employed wore released upon pay pay- mont of a fine fino of The rhe appeal to President was based chicO chiefly upon th the civil war wat record of Montayne In an epistle of several thousand words his lawyer tried to reach the tho sympathetic side sido of the president ent President Roosevelt a reply was that ho he dill did not nt eo fit to interfere |