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Show DEFEKDMIFS IN FRAUD GASES ft SENTENCED CORPUS CHBI8TI, Tpxas. Sept. 24. Sentences rangiug from six months in jail to one year anil a Hay in th- federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan., were pro nounc ed on the five defendant? convicted con-victed here last Friday of couspirai v to defraud the I'nited States by voting unqualified aliens. Notice of appeal immediately im-mediately was given by counsel for th defense. County Clerk August Hub linger. 11. -n rv Stevens, a merchant who owned the building in which the so called pay station"" for fraudulent voters was situated sit-uated in the election of November, I 1914, and Kd t astleberry, i shIimji. Keeper, Keep-er, were sentenced to one year and one day in the tederal prison it Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan., and fined $5000 each. Lee Riggs. a constable, and Tom thin ii, Ibriner city secretary, were sentenced sen-tenced to six months in jail at Victoria, Texas, and fined $25o0 each. Bonds in the sum of $12,"00 were I fixed by the court in the "ases ot I Kuhlinger. Stevens and Castlrberrv, and the other two bonds were $o0U0. The appeal will be taken to the Lnited States circuit court of appeals at Nev Orleans, and it may be many mouth1 before the final outcome of the caCD can be known. Four of the defendant? are more than sixty yeans old, and the fifth. Ed Castle-berry, Castle-berry, is fifty. Under the provisions of the law, the five men sentenced this morning were placed in jail until their appeal i-s perfected. per-fected. It is required that the writ be perfected within thirty days. After the writ of appeal is filed they j will be allowed their freedom, aft-- fur- nishing the bonds fixed this morning. |