Show DAVIES GIVEN NINE MONTHS t i Deputy Clerk of B Sentenced COURT HOPES FOR REFORM COUNSEL MAKES STRONG PLEA f JUDICIAL CLEMENCY I Beynon former deputy county clerk was to nine months in the jail by Judge 1 A yesterday crIminal in connection the bounty frauds of last year The max mum penalty for the offense is one year in th county jail or a of 1000 Daes was found guilty last 4 week Attorney F C Loofbourow and P J of coUnsel for Davies by Judge fore was Mr Loofbourow urged that the same penalty as Jones and three men lit the frauds who pleaded guilty and received a sentence of erie year each their sentences running treat the time of arrest Mr asked for leniency of the peculiar of the case Ho said had been con on of had himself a perjurer and who had been a criminal before he ever met Davies Mr charged with been the of the scheme l tie Says He Was Jnes Dupe I ama informed that Jones wa fib orated fromi the county jail day night aid Mr Gustin has been paid for his testimony and no oth other er complaint will ever be Iliad against hint It seems to me that it be bea a of justice to send boy Davies to the county for the limit be bits been the dupe of such a aman man as Jones who I understand has already been released Mr LoofboUrOw said Jones had not been so far an he or any of the county officials and ho be believed Davies who had been an of trust of the coUnty have protected its interests ought to the penalty In response to an Inquiry by Judge Howell Davies he had no state mont to make makeIn In passing sentence Judge Howell said he had no right to consider what might have beon done In any other ease but pass sentence accord according ing to the facts brought out in the present case He said he believed it was a pIty that a graver charge could not have been against all the themen men concerned in the bounty frauds In the case of time defendant saId the judge there was good reason to be behove hove Davies had borne a good char character acter priOr to his present trouble and that when liberated 1 e would endeavor to live an honest life again In view of the fact that prisoners in tile county jail are not entitled to a reduction of sentence for good behavior and taking into consideration that Davies had a family dependent on the judge said he believed a sentence of nine in jail would be a proper pen He Begins His Sentence was taken from th court courtroom room to the jail to begin his sentence It is said by friends or Davies that whatever money he may have derived through his connection with the bounty frauds was spent long ago He worked as a laborer on the streets during the time between his release from jail on bond and the time of lila trial Sheriff C Frank Emery says the statement that Jones has been released from jail is a mistake as the man Is still confined In the rotary there |