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Show - lie Shows up Aiitlionv's Deceit. M i i.w u kfk, Keb. 4. C, N'. asper, the antiquarian bookstore man, charged with sending obscene litrrature through mulls, went before Jud ge Jenkins of the federal court and pleaded guilty today. His attor- uey asked for clemency on the ground i that Caspar had sold goods only under tlie most strict inspection of the character of his customers, and without the knowledge of his clerks, every precaution having been taken to prevent the works falling iuto the hands of the young, mid that he was ignorant of the enormity of Ihe offenfG before the law. The case was brought upon the evidence of Attorney Comstock, who, under an assumed name and from a small village in Vermont, had been able to induce the defendant to mail bin some ot). jectiouable matter. Judge JenkiM not only exercised executive clemency , hut took occasion oc-casion to severely criticise t'otnstocK. Before Be-fore imposing the light line of f."00, which was promptly paid, the Judge said: "There are some offenses worse than the circulation of obscene literature. One of them is tlie practice of fraud and lying, of which Anthony An-thony Comstock lias apparently been guilty. Mr. ( omstock may he" util- to reconcile his conduct with the laws of Hod and of human-Ity, human-Ity, but tills court cannot do so." |