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Show DESERVED PUNISHMENT Coroner. Who Was Guilty of Extortion. Will Be Tried and Imprisoned. BELLINGHAM, Wash.. May 23. Eighteen months in the penitentiary, $1000 fine, and the vacation of his office of-fice is the minimum penalty under the statutes of Washington for Coroner Wainwright, of Skagit county, who wa last night found guilty of malfeasance in office, the jury being out but twenty minutes. The specific charge w.i, extortion, ex-tortion, the coroner having demanded and received money for suppressing an order for an inquest on the remains of a suicide. |