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Show FEDERAL MI W METE SEKFEILIli Bootleggers Are Warned by Judge Johnson That They Will Get Limit. The lioothvo-r v.ho appears before the .judgment seat of the federal eourt in Salt Lake in the future will face stem reality, and unless lie is in sueh condition that several months spent !n the county- jail mifrht result in his death, he will lie sentenced to the limit provided by the law. Such was the announcement of Jurtpc Tillman D. .lohnson yesterday, when he turned a deal ear to the pleadings of R. C Wise and Mike Petrello for clemenev. The court decbred his intention to exert the limit of the law in diseour-iiirinc diseour-iiirinc the briiiiri njr of li(pior into dry territory in violation of the Reed amendment. Imposition of a fine, the court said, had not left a deep impression impres-sion on the minds of guilty liquor traffickers, and in future a fine will not be imposed except in cases where imnrisonment in the county jail might prove fatal to the prisoner. In all other cases the culprit will bo given the limit. Consistent with the warning, R. C. "Wise, a telegraph operator, who pleaded plead-ed guilty to violation of the Reed amendment, was given six months in the county jail, and four, months was the sentence meted out to Mike Fe-trello. Fe-trello. an Italian who could not understand un-derstand English. In this case, because be-cause of the ignorance of the prisoner, i the court was merciful. j |