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Show BOMB PLOTTERS ' GET BRIEF TERMS Von Rintelen and Ten Fellow Fel-low Conspirators Escape With 18 Months. I Br InlPrntttlonal Nt-wB STTicr. .- York, Veb. 5. Sentences of islte-n months' Imprisonments and fines of 52000 each were imposed to-niKht to-niKht on Franz von Rintelen. one of the most active German aRcnts in this counlrv. and ten other Germans convicted con-victed by a jury in the federal court this afternoon of conspiracy to destroy merchant ships of the allies with fire bombs. Besides Von Klntclen. the defendants iverc Bonford Boniface, Krncst Becker. F vv Karbade. George Praecicl, V i ! -helm Paredes, Eusens Relster, Walter l'hd, Karl von Kleist, Joseph Zaffert and Otto Wolpert. Von P.intelen's term will beprin after his present term in the Westchester county jail and his previous term of eighteen months' imprisonment. Jud';c Howe sentenced each of the defendant.-' Individually and bcinnins ,i,h von KinteW-n, e.v pressed rr,Kret that the law would not permit htm to impose a Kt.ater penalty. counsel fr I he c-lci cn ran bcu-ued for . Umency. but their ideas w Li e ignored. |