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Show MAYOR ROBERTS I GIVEN SENTENCE 1 Six Years in Leavenworth and Fine of $2,000 for Partici- W pation in Election Frauds. Indianapolis, lnd . April ll'. Mayor F Donn M. Roberts of Terre Haute, who j was described today by Judge Ander- son as the "arch conspirator," wa sentenced to serve six years in the f federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven - worth, Kan . and pay a fine of $200 in t federal court here today Twenty jf others of the 116 persons who havs f been convicted or pleaded guilty to j the federal indictment charging con- & aplraey to defraud the United States I by corrupting the election of Novem- ber 3. 1914, also received sentences p. to Leavenworth prison Four were given suspended sentences: Judgment C was reserved in the case of four at F the request of LTnited States District f; Attorney Dailev and the remainder t were given sentences in the local jail F or tinea ft' Before sentence was passed, Judge (E Anderson overruled luotions for new Jft trials, filed on behalf of the 27 men IK" found guilty by a jury last Tuesoay. and lo arrest judgment. Exceptions were taken to the court's decisions. fe Nonces ol appeal were filed for the M iwciii convicted men who were sen- w tenoed to the penitentiary . Judge An- K derson said he would fix the appeal K bond, the same as it was fixed in the B, dynamite conspiracy case two years E' ago This was at the rate of $10,000 P for i icb year of prison term given. k Roberts anpeal bond being Jbtrun" Edward Holler, former chief of po- K l r Terre Haute, was the only one K Of the s'' "ho pleaded guilty to re- i" celve a prison sentence. t Flihu Redman elected Judge of the Bf circuit court of Vigo county by 10 j , votes, and Sheriff Dennis Shea, were fy sentenced to years in the pent- ;n I tentlary and fined S100M each. f' 1-Iarrj S Montgomery, president of m I ! the boa ill oi public works: Thomas C if. Smith ity judge (.Jeorse Ehreuhardt, I . member of the board of public works R' , ..ml Edward R Drlsool. aecretarj of the Vigo COUntj Democratic central B ' committee were sentenced to thr-'e f . eats es li in tbe penitentiary and jS; M urn e Walsh county sealer of ff nelghta ami measures, and treasurer K . of campaign fund: John Masseliuk E city inspector of weights and mesa (t- ni es. and a member uf the 1011 In :" dlana legislature; Charles Houghton R assistant custodian of the city hall !K"r:- Io eph O'Mara, street commissioner IT r . .Me kczel, inapector of street pa W' " Ing Arthur GllliS. Progressive clerk R';; oi eh-, lion board; Josepii Strauss, ' . liquor salesman, and (leorge Sovoren, R: ambler, were sentenced to one vear ' n,i a day in the penitentiarj and K" ' fined Sinn Chief of Policy Boiler, who had pleaded guilty wa givon a and a da sentence, and fin--"! tH .51 tone dollar) |