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Show PRESIDENT CUTS DOWN SENTENCE OF TIERS WASHINGTON. April 19. Herbert XV. Tiers, who pleaded guilty In Pittsburg to abstracting funds of the First National Na-tional bank of that city and was sentenced sen-tenced to five years imprisonment 'which would have expired August 12. 1912, has had his sentence commuted bv the president presi-dent to two years. Tho defendant appropriated ap-propriated about ?2000 Tho president has commuted to expire Immediately a sentence of five years Imprisonment Imposed Im-posed on .T. M. Dalaney who pleaded guilty at Chicago to making five coins In resemblance to a silver dime. Mis term would have expired February 13, 191" Lizzie. Cardlsli, an Indian girl, has had her sentence of confinement In a reform school until she reached the ago of " commuted to expire immodlatclv. When sho was 15 years old she pleaded guilty in the United Stales court for tho eastern east-ern district or Wisconsin, to a charge of arson. Sh- acted under the influence of older students. |