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Show FACTORY OPERATOR GIVEN JAIL TERM ! Partner in Company Housed in Build- tug "Where Thirteen Perished Made 1 I Example by New York Court. NEW YORK, Jan. 2fi. Asserting that a sentence in prison should teach a far-reaching far-reaching lesson to factory owners and tenants who fail to provide proper fire exits, Supreme Court Justice Kapper todav sent Samuel Barkin to Sing Sing for from two and a half to five and a half years. Barkin is a partner in a shirtmaking company housed in a Brooklyn building build-ing where nine w o m f n and four men operatives lost their lives in a fire, he-cause he-cause the t rapdoor between their plae of work and Barkin 's flor was locked. Barkin was convicted hy a jury earlier this week. His partner, Samuel Simon, and the .building's owners, Mr. and Mrs, Edward L. Diamond, proprietors of a candv company in the structure, are still to b tried on similar charges. |