Show I Sets Ills Dose NEW YOEK December 20 ExAlder man McQuade was this morning sentenced tenced to seven years imprisonment and to pay a fine of 5000 Recorder Smith said he thought it was his duty to tak more than usual caution cau-tion in all the details of this case Officers Offi-cers were picked a respectable hotel selected for the accommodation of the jury and the jury were conscientiously warned on each occasion of their leaving leav-ing the court room The Recorder also took special pains to caution tbe jurors that they would notbe allowed to receive re-ceive letters or calls front anyone not even members of their family in fact special caution had been used and the court was satisfied that the interests of the prisoner had been carefully guarded McQaade was ordered to stand up and did so with his thumb in his pantaloons pockets flit defense remarked General Tracy has nothing to say why sentence sen-tence should not be pronounced against him We rely on his tormir good character and the esteem in which he is still held by his neighbors and acquaintances who are many of them here now to ask for leniency of the convict The recorder said in substance Arthur J McQuade you have been fairly and justly convicted of bribery You were elected to perform a public duty and a pubic trust Instead of doing do-ing so you violated tbat trust Your character as a business man citizen father and husband 13 good I have sympathy for your wife nnd family You should have considered them before be-fore you did wrong YJU did not add to the crime of which you have been convicted as Jaehne did by taking the I stand and committing perjury 1 have reason to believe you j received as much money as Duffy did 10000 That money is not yours it is not the prouerty of your I family if it is left with them it will I work the inevitable result of illgotten gain I would advIse you to give up I and pay back to thecity the money which you received and I have no doubt but that it Avill work to your bene 1st The sentence of the court is that you confined in the States Prison at hard labor for the term of seven years and that you pay a fine of 5 000 r During the sentence McQuade stood up his arms folded across his bosom in a manner habitual to him The sentence was given and the audience dispersed McQaade going out with his Keepers and the faithful brother who I had stood by his side throughout the trial Counsel for McQjmde obtained a copy of the sentence and left the room McQuade was immediately taken to the Tooaibs and after the usual I formalities was locked in cell 17 |