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Show Judge Morris Sends Two Men to Federal Prison at Fort STINGING REBUKE IS H GIVES REN SAILOR Prisoifer Holds Up Well, but Wife Breaks Into Passion Two offenders against the laws of the United States' had justice meted out jH to sheiii in Iho United rilates district court Monday morning by Jude Page Morris. They were. Ken ailnr. former-ly former-ly -a mail clerk, who was charged with rifling money from registered loiters, ll and was sentenced to thirloeu mouths at the. government prison at Ft, Leaven-:, ifll worth.' Kansas, ami A. L. Williams, iTH charged with impersonating a govern- if incut license inspector. lie was scut- -vH euccd to one year and two days at the sov.pr"nicl'1 I,ri?fu, and lo pav a fine ''wSIM of tfaOO. I3ot.li men pleaded "uilfv, UH When it became known ih;it both MH these prisoners would enter picas of IH guilty, special arrangements wcro marie ll to bring ihem before the court in order iH that, sentence might be passed, aud thev H might begin their sentences as soon as 1 Sailor was the first lo hear ihe judg- ment of the court. Accompanied bv 'tH his wite.ihe sat near the .judge's bench and when he was called upon to plead' H arose, trembling and ashen pale, and in IH a low voice said. "Guilly." 7;, rc. quired a tremendous effort, upon the part of his wife to restrain the tears jjH but she nianagodi to do so until Hie pass- iH nig of the sentence, when sho burt fl out crying and became hysterical. jH Stinging Rebuke. flf With the entering of hie plea. Sailor Jl stood erect while .Midge Morris dcliv- vbH ercd a stinging rebuke to him. The PJH court, slated that as a general fhin" fJBH lectures amounted to nothing, but m "Kil this enso ono might havo a little i'f 'KH feet. .Sailor was lold that the court SSH lial pasi-ed the light sentence of thir- liH teen mouths for two reasons, ouc be ing the fact that tho young man has been in jail seven months, and tbc set- oud on account of his.wife and three lit- H tie ones. The judge informed the pri- oner that upon his release from prison he must, turn over a new leaf and he rH gin life over again, declaring that, the lH stain he had placed upon tho future of his little ones was shameful and would hurt tli em th rough all (he years beforo jH "It is only by how ysu conduct vour- wl ficll.- declared tho court, "that" this JVH blemish can be in any way craied from M?H them. You have made the innocent "ViJaM suffer, and you should bo hcartilv ashamed of yourself.' H Williams was then called beforo the jH bar of justice and asked to plead. He lH said "guilty' in a linn voiue. but ov- jH ing to his youth the court stated that Ihe sentence to bo passed would he more in the nature of a lesson lo him H fhau punishment. Williams was (hen sentenced to serve oue $oar and two H days and to pav a fine of ?500. Both 'IH ho and Sailor veil I be taken to Fort fH Leavenworth iodav by one of the ofii- uiH cers connected, with the 'United states tJHH marshal's office. StTH Sailor's Ca3o, fB Sailor was a mail clerk on the Oic ! 'umI gnn Short Line, between Ogdcn and ml Ma lad, fdaho. Registered letters were V-55B missed from time and "time, while if. is ?cH claimed that others containing money jH had been opened, (he money e.ttrartcd, 4RH the letters resealed and passed on to JH their destination. It required several IH months of hard work upon the part of 'll the railroad authorities and postollicc ll inspectors before Ihe trouble was traced LH t a Sailor's car. Letters were then mail- tl cd at. -Ma lad contain ing marked money, jH and after the loiters had passed f hrougb Sailor's hands at Ogdcn the money was .H found to be missing from tliom. Tic was arrested and searched and the . -gifM marked money found in his pockets. xaVI He was indicted by the United States -cvlH g ml jury on three counts, and was mnuH sentenced upon all three, the senicnecs smH to run concurrently. jH Williams, who was arrested nearly '-H two months ago and charged with ini JH personating a government license in- pjK specter, went about his work in a hnrc- faced manner. He visited a number of H lodging houses in the city and demanded 'mm of their keepers the payment of the H government tax on liquors. lie threat- K cnejl to confiscate the liquor if tho tax 3H was not paid, and was mi slick in Ins wtEL line of talk that he managed to secure -XB upwards ol $L00 in this manner before -JpAvUa lie was caught. He was indicted upon iljtSk four counts, sentenced upon each, wilh 'J fJjK& the sentences to run concurrently. rjilltm |