Show conviction anil and sentence 1 c of r un AX acmon M y ea t 0 r ft A js i NoroN nov the following official order was made public today to day of tile conviction and sentence of a government contractor GENS OFFICE nov 21 63 john R steller has been ean convicted evicted by court martial of willful neglect af t auty in ill having a contract to furnish to the subsistence sis si department one hundred aundre tilou thousand pounds of prime boast and ground rio coffee stipulating in the contract that proof by chemical analysis or otherwise should show said coffee to be cam composed ased of pule prime rio coffee and that the same should bo be delivered in Balti baltimore inore and in failing to deliver any quantity whatever of pure rio coffee and having agreed to furnish to the united states about one hundred casks of fine prime roasted and ground now orleans coffee did deliver instead thereof dred casks of coffee proved b by 0 inspection and chemical analysis to be impure and adulterated and which was therefore rejected by the file subsistence department the court sentenced said john it steller to be imprisoned in the penitentiary at albany N Y or it at such other place aa the Secie tary of war may direct for tho the term of five years the foregoing sentence has been approved by the secretary of war and albany N Y designated as the place of confinement which has been approved by the president E A TOWNSEND abst adit general |