Show To Pay the Penalty I Q CHICAGO November 14The Supreme Gourbin session at Ottawa today affirmed the decision of the lower courts in the case of Joseph G Mackin fir perjury The principal claim off of-f d IitJvas that the indictment for perjury being ound by a special grand jury while the regular grand jury was atill in existence was irregular andthat the defendant could not be legally convicted under it The Supreme Su-preme court todajr agreed with the lower courts that the indictment was yalid and now nothing but the possible though exceedingly improbable clemency clem-ency of the government stands between 1 the famous election manipulator and his sentence of five years in the penitentiary At the senatorial election elec-tion it was discovered that a large number num-ber of spurious ballots had been printed and cast in favor of Brand for State senator In the investigation which followed sufficient evidence was produced pro-duced to convict Mackin of crime and he was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary and the payment of a fine of 5000 Mackens attorney at once carried the case to the Supreme Court of the United States before which it now is Following his conviction convic-tion in the United States Court for tampering with ballots Mackin was indicted by the Sate Grand Jury for perjury in swearms that he had not ordered nor received spurious ballots Of thin crime he was convicted as above stated and will now pay the penalty |