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Show Ten Years in Prison !s Bsgelow's fate Dramatic Scene in Court When tho Defaulting Dank President Pleads Guilty. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Juno 10. Frank G. Blgelow, self-confessed defaulter of the funds of the First National bank to the amount of a million and a half dollars, dol-lars, plea4d guilty today to an Indictment Indict-ment of the Federal grand Jury containing contain-ing ten counts, each a violation ot the national banking laws, and was sentenced sen-tenced by United States District Judge Joseph A' Quaries to ten years' Imprisonment Impris-onment at hard labor in the nonltontlary at Port Leavenworth, Kan., the sentence to begin at noon today Starts for Leavenworth. Th former banker upon being sentence! sen-tence! wa:i turned over to tho custody of a United States Marshal and the prisoner pris-oner nrae started, on his Jourpoy to tho prison late this evening. Proeeedtnn In the court wore dramatic and Impressive In the extreme. Judge Quarles, in passing sentence, dwelt at some length on tho circumstances surrounding sur-rounding the case and In a voice Indicative Indica-tive i'( strong emotion referred to his own long personal friendship for the ruined man who faced him awaiting his sentence. sen-tence. Is Visibly Affected. Hlgelow was visibly affected. althouRh he bore himself with remarkable fortitude. forti-tude. The courtroom was crowded Every member of the grand jury which returned the Indictment against Blgelow was present and the space within the bar of the court was occupied by many well known attorneys. |