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Show Sentenced. j Richard J. Filce, convicted in the district court on Friday of a rape upon his little daughter, was sentenced by I 1 the ehiel justice yesterday afternoon. 1 iBefcrc the sentence was pronounced Filce read a long t-tatement, in which he did not deny his guilt, but tried to J make it appear Unit his conviction i was the result of a conspiracy against bim. The jude, in sentencing the 1 prisoner, said the question which had exercised his mind was not how ' severely he bhould punish Filce for his heinuu; aiul unmiUira crime, but how Kn.g a confinement in jail , would make him a better man and fit him for entering society. The 1 sentence wna for tin years in the penitentiary a shorter peiiod than it -! was generally thought would be imposed. |