Show ERTY GETS GETSi i f STIFF SENTENCE Peoria Embezzler Pleads Guilty S JUDGE SHOWS NO MERCY TH HI SHORTAGE WILL PROBABLY S AMOUNT TO Ill No Nov C Clougherty PEORIA P lougherty Dougherty has pleaded guilty to five of the forgery charges against and will be t taken ken to the Joliet penitentiary either tonight or tomor tomorrow tomorrow row lIe He appeared before Judge Judg Worth Worthington Ington today pleaded guilty and was a sentence of from one tour four fourteen teen teon years on of th thi tIe five the samo caine to pe e concurrent Whon the prisoner accompanied d W T Irwin one of his attorneys hiS hiSson hisson son Ralph and a depoty sh sheriff left the jail juil for the court room said to the jailer Yell ell I guess Ill have to do It Property Turned Turned Over In the courtroom there were spec spectators spectators Attorn Attorney e Irwin addressed the He said that Dougherty Doughert had turned all ot of his property over to him and that he Irwin had been giVen right ot of attorney to settle the affairs or at the tue prisoner He added that Dough Doughertys property would amount to more than the school board defalcations He admitted that Dougherty had been careless and that he stood willing to take his punishment I Sentenced by Court Judge Worthington replied as Lol fol follows lows S SI I find it to send him to the penitentiary as the law provides I It will be a severe punishment In count Xo No the sentence will In the prison at f for r an Indeterminate teim not less tho one year eu or more thun fourteen years soil tory tary confinement In counts 24 and the sante sentence That is all the court was speaking Dough Doughert Dougherty ert erty looked straight ahead of him and did not move mOe a muscle Ho He said noth nothIng lug Ing when the sentence was pronounced and was taken back to jail escorted b bIUs by Ills IUs attorneys No Chance of Escape Doughertys action today was as un unexpected expected as It was vas astonishing he hat ha haIng tug Ing last week pleaded not guilty to tile Uie same charges But the refusal of Judge Worthington to quash the In indictments against him and the fact that the November grand jury is now In ready rendy to return others that be fr free e of any IO of the charged In the tho first so 50 tightened the tho coils colis around the prisoner that he could s see e no way out Ho th therefore threw himself upon the merc mercy of the court his old friend would deal dealas dealas as as possible with I S Shortage of mar marks i the clo closing ing scenes of the themo mo t astounding school fund robb robbery r O to public notice For Fortl tl five years ears Newton C Doughier Dougher ry ns t city superintendent and for tor near C ly twenty years rs n as secretary of the board had hati almost absolute control or of orthe the school funds He Issued scrip and handled and checks as if they were his own As 05 president ot of the Peoria National bank he was enabled to cover up hl his so 50 that from Juno June 30 1904 to June 30 1905 the school fund shortage amounted to WIllie aU all or of the thc books or of the have hoye not yet en by a ape specia apet t cia cial tl mm no now w at W work It A that the amp age u ga un pt n ey lOO t f |