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Show C01I CUES RUPLE DELAY OF SENTENCE Former Assistant Postmaster Postmas-ter Enters Plea of Not Guilty of Embezzlement. On bis own . motion Henry 0. Ruple, who was to have been sentenced hy Judfie Tillman D. Johnson yesterday in the United States district court, for perjury, tvas granted a stay of sentence until July 1, when a hearing will be held for a new trial. The motion was satisl'actorv to Assistant United States District Attorney Davit! S. Cook, who represented the prosecution, and without with-out deliberation Judge Johnson granted the stay. Euple, bent and grizzled from the effects of sixtv-five years of toil, was the recipient of many congratulations from his manv friends who accomua-nied accomua-nied him to the courtroom. With tears in her eves, but her face in smiles, his wife. May Kuple, who stood by tho old man throughout the long trial and comforted com-forted him during the darkest moments, mo-ments, threw her arms about the withered with-ered old man and wept with joy. which caused many of tho seasoned attorneys in the courtroom to reach suspiciously toward their handkerchiefs. Kuple was tho principal in one of the most interesting and most complicated trials ever herd in the local court. He was charged with having fraudulently received pension money belonging to his brother, Peter, who fought in the Civil war. He contended that in reality ho was P.eter Euple, and he had taken nv0r tho nnmd of tTenrv in order to shield the name of his wife, who had previously married Henry and had deserted de-serted her. It was necessary for the prosecution to seenre more than sixty-five sixty-five witnesses from six states to prove that the man was Henry Buplc. He was convicted of perjury on seven counts. A. E. Pritehard. formerly head of the, finance department of the local United States postoffice, charged with embezzlement embez-zlement of postal funds, entered a plea of not guilty before Judge Johnson. |