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Show A SENTENCE DAY, The Weird Bomances of the Novelist Rivaled iii the Realities of the Court Eooins, Luther Dalrymple Goes up for Adultery, Leaving Two Infants with Two Mothers. COURTS COMMENTARIES. ' Olof Gagiion, the Counterfeiter Eecitea the "Gilded" Legend of His Downfall. ONCE AN HONEST MAN, He was Turning Out Spurious "Idols" In Job Lota When the Sleuths Fell in on ills Gloomy Mint The lleaa of a Sob-bins Sob-bins Wif. "Luther Dalrymple, stand up!" It was sentence day in the district court nnd as the Ice-cold command Issued automatically auto-matically from the lips of the court the spare tigure of a young man rose from tho mourner's bench and ambled towards the deBk. He was alone now. The avenging girl who had watched with increasing zeal the slow processes of tho law was at home nursing the noisy product of her folly, and now and thon directing her maledictions at the church of Jesus Christ out of which she had been cruelly turned with the brand of harlotry upon her fair forehead. The wife, who had also watched the sluggish movements of fate while the trial of her husband was in progress wu also missing from the chamber. She, too, was Rocking a Ilahe that was now bereft of a sire. No one In fact was there but Dalrymple himself. He stood on his own bottom, somewhat shakey, but prepared to take his medicine. A jury of twelve, had found that prior to his marriage mar-riage he had accomplished the ruin of Char-lotto Char-lotto Mills, a hot tempere d sprite of Centre. Tille. "Have you anything to say?" asked Judge Zane. "Nothing," stammered the prisoner, his eyes heaping with tears, "in addition to what my counsel has said." Lawyer Putnam who had fought vainly for the prisoner during the trial now came forward for-ward and with clerical solemnity urged that tho prisoner's conviction had been upon the testimony of an accomplice, that the offense was devoid of any of the .tparklluB Elements of Seduction or breach of promise and again the wife w as not there as an avenger but had condoned the wrong that had well uigh broken her heart. Mr. Putnam over'ooked the fact that his client had also drawn an ecclesiastical pardon par-don while his helpless victim bore the awful seal of church condemnation. He did recall, re-call, however, that "Lutie" was a poor boy on whom was dependent the wife and babe only one of them aud an aged mother. District Attorney Varian was very brief in his reply, talliug attention to the fact that perjury had shown its desolating tongue somewhere in the trial. The Court Yes; It was shown that he had committed the offense three times twice before and once after he was married. "The jury," continued the court, adjusting its spectacles and throwing his searching gaze on Dalrymple, "has found you Guilty of Adultery. Have you anything to say?" Dalrymple was sileut he was trying to swallow a lump in his throat. "I believe the offense," continued the court reflectively, "has been committed on three occasions, and yet tho circumstances don't show that it was very aggravating. I don't regard the crime of adultery as seri-' ous as unlawful cohabitation the Sense against socit ty is not so serious and, in view of the fact I hat you have a wife and child. 1 shall tlx your punishment at four months in the penitentiary." Dalrymple's spirits rose like the froth in a wine glass, and, following Bailiff Sprague, was whirled away in the direction of the penitentiary. Gone tilimmerinK. A pathetic scene was presented when Olof (iagnon, the self-confessed counterfeiter, came forward to receive sentence. He was accompanied by his wife, a petite little woman with a wealth of blond hair, while in his arms he supported a babe whose flaxen curls played around the folds of a blue hood. Gagnon was picked up in the recont raid upon the counterfeiters, and one midnight just before Christmas was taken unawares in his little dwelling down on Second South. He had lived there, au honest man, with his wife and child, aud was making a honest living for them. Preseutly the counterfeiters counterfeit-ers appeared on the scene, and painting rich Pictures of Kase and Comfort hung them in gilded frames before him. Big, simple and unsophisticated, (iagnon yielded and was at once provided with the material and, paraphernalia of a counterfeiter's counter-feiter's mint. The 15' s, $10' s and liO's began be-gan to roll from the cornucopia into the pockets of the unwary, and then followed the quiet work of the sleuths. He made no attempt to defend himself, but confessing everything threw himself upou the mercy of the authorities. "Staud up, (iagnon !" camo hoarsely from the clerk's desk, and a wife w ho had been sobbing as if Her Heart Would Break, tripped almost blindly up to tho bench. She handed the court a seated package and was followed by ex Marshal Young whe stated that he had been over the prisoner's trnlljand had learned that this was the first offense. Oagnon stood as motionless a? a piece of statuary. "You have pleaded guilty," said Judge .'vine, addressing himself to the prisoner, "to counterfeiting. Have you anything to say V" "Nothing," replied Ciagnon calmly, "I'm guilty a charged." Mr. Varlan at this Juncture rose from ills chair and stated that he hail ascertained that Gagnnu had been a working man prior to his advent aB a counterfeiter and had earned a living for Hi Wife and llalie. Again turned ovei to the court Oagnon recited hi troubles, his experience a a bar tender, ill his trade as a stonemason, and his final dowufall in the counterfeiter's den. "Is that your wife and child silting there ?" asked the court. Gagnon for the first time turned and looking look-ing upon them his lip hegan to quiver. "Yes ir," he answered. "Have you ever been convicted of a crime before "No sir; never was arrested before." "How rime you to commit this crime?" "I did it, y'r honor, through the iuduuuce of another man and liquor." "How much "Money AA'as Counterfeited ?' "I believe f IMOO was made, but only foOO Of it was gilded." "No, sir;" said Oagnon. There was no possibility of victimizing the wary clerk. Tho penalty for such offenses was then read to uagnon and he was sentenced to one year at hard labor. District Attorney Varlan hero took occa (ion to ask that the remainder of the counterfeiter' coun-terfeiter' esse be set for the last week In March and the calcudar was thcu proceeded with. |