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Show WILL ID ID THEN GUO JAIL, SALT LAKE. May 22. Sentenced to serve two years In the federal penitentiary peni-tentiary at Leavenworth. Kan., and pay a fine of $100, on two Indictments charging counterfeiting, the sentences to run concurrently, Frank Sprapie will t.Acome a benedict Monday before hla retiring to the seclusion of lav-enworth. lav-enworth. The bride-elect Is Minnie Kooyman. a family name well known In Salt l.akc. but the family Is now domiciled In Denver. Monday morning Deputy 1'nlted State Marshal Julian Riley will take Sprague from the county Jail to the . county cWk's office, where the bride- j groom will meet his bride, a license will he Issued and the marriage cere- j money performed. District Attorney j Booth nor any other United States of- j flclal raises any objection to the per- j formance of the ceremony. For some time. It I g said. Minnie has been the common-law wife of Sprague, and she Is now In a delicate condition. When sentence was pronounced upon her husband-to-be she wept bitterly and j refused to be comforted. Partner In Crime. William Morgan. Sprague's partner j In crime, and who, the latter claims, led him Into the path o( the transgressor, transgres-sor, was seuieneed to two and a half years In the Leavenworth penitentiary peniten-tiary and given a fine of ln, in two indictment. charging counterfeiting. The two men at llrst pleaded not guilty, but Saturday they changed their pleas to that of guilty, Morgan supplementing his admission by the I statement that h was not guilty, but thought the easiest way out of the difficulty dif-ficulty was to admit guilt. He also claimed that ho was suffering from tuborcucolosls. and asked for leniency, but Judge Marshall said thero was no cause for leniency except Morgan's physical condition. an thai, he believed. be-lieved. In part was feigjed. Morgan and Sprague were arrested In Ogdcn lost January and the charge was the counterfeiting of half-dollar pieces. Whether the manufacture of the spurious coin wor. curried on at the Kooyman residence in this city Is not known, but the authorities av that the outfit belontlnir to th counterfeiters coun-terfeiters was found there. According to the indictment. Morg.m paed a i counterfeit half dollar oU May Mitchell Mit-chell at the Isis theater, Salt " I.rl(. j January 21, this year. |