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Show SMITH GETS TEN YEARS. Former Tax Collector Pleads Guilty and ls Sentenced. SAN FRANCISCO, May 23x E. J Smith, Son Francisco's tax collector, who fled from San Francisco to St. Louis, pleaded guilty to embezzlement today and was sentenced to ten years Imprisonment, the maximum sentence. Smith fled from the city in April, leaving a shortage of $65,000 in his accounts. ac-counts. He went first to New York and then to St. Louis, where he was arrested ar-rested Just as he was Raving for San Francisco. |