Show BIGELOW GETS DOSE OF JUSTICE Bank President Sees No Rope of Escape SO ENTERS PLEA OF GUlL PUNISHMENT IS EN YEARS AT ATHARD ATHARD HARD LABOR nil 11 Wise Wis June Tane IV I VI I G the defaulting bAnk bankS S I ent 1 g guilty to an ll of f tan teft counts returned b by the federal grand jUI jury charging barging violations of the national bank law and was sent sentenced by United States District Jud Judge e Quarles to a con concurrent current sentence of oc ten years ears at hf hard labor in the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth 1 Shortly after Bigelow Bigelo entered the court room Judge Jud e Quarles arrived United States Attorney Butterfield at once made an announcement that an containing ten had been returned by the Uti federal grand jUI jury a against Bigelow an all of oC which WEre for violations of the national banking la laws Pleaded Guilty Mr Ir Bigelow Bigelo stated that he waive examination and plead guilty to aU all the counts contained in the indict indictment leant ment District Attorney Butterfield ad addressed dr dressed the Uie court statin stating that he did not believe the la law in any case looks towArd the meting out of vengeance but that the law aW seeks to have justice done He stated that the minimum sentence in this case was five lve years and the maximum ten years on each count It seemed to Rim him that in simple justice in vindication of the la law a maximum sentence on one count should be administered in UI tItle ease Sentence Passed Judge Quarles expressed profound sorrow at the stern dut duty with which he was confronted but a public officer should not shrink from his plain dut duty The case cas involving the misappropriation lion tion of funds of a bank was a most serIous one The crime charged was not only a gross violation but tended to destro destroy confidence The court could see no p palliating circumstances and the ends of justice must b be served oy by the meting out of the extreme penalty In to provide against an any poSsibility fly ity of oC an error being in Hi an any of the ten counts thE court said he would pronounce sentence on cock count The sentence impo Imposed d will m be concurrent and not cumulative Judge Quarles then pronounced that it was wase fhe e sentence of the that Bigelow shall serve ten years at hard labor in inthe Inthe the federal penitentiary at Fort Leaven Leaen Morth Ran Kan sentence to tc be begin ln at noon today Mr Ir Bigelow eVidently wa was prepared for the worst as he took thE sentence coolly He wa was immediately turned over to the United States marshal |