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Show Five Convicted Russians Must Serve 3 to 25 Years. NEW YORK, Oct. 25. Five avowed anarchists, convicted of circulating anti-government anti-government literature. Including pamphlets pam-phlets urging munitions workers to go on strike, were sentenced to confinement In prisons in the, federal court here to-j to-j day. Three of them were given twenty-year twenty-year terms, a fourth, wno turned slate's evidence, was committed for three years, and the fifth, a woman, for fifteen years. All five are Russians, not naturalized, and Bflf-acknow lodged supporters of the Bolf-hevikl. The :;ree principal conspirators, conspira-tors, Samuel Lipman, Jacob Abrams and Hyman Lachonsky, In addition to twenty-year twenty-year terms in the Maryland state penitentiary, peni-tentiary, weie sentenced to pay fines of $1000 each. Hyman Rozansky, who afler hU arrest aided the department of justice jus-tice In rounding up his associates and who was shown to have been led by them, was fined $1000 and sent to the same prison for three years. Mollie Ktlmer, a diminutive revolutionary who openly defied de-fied all authority, including that of the court, was ordered to pay a fine of $rij0 and serve fifteen years In the woman's penitentiary at Jefferson City. Mo. The yuintet had printed and thrown from rooftops in. the East Side section of New York last August circulars criticising criti-cising the action of the government in sending troops to Russia and urging workers work-ers In munitions- plants to strike ra ther than "make bullets to murder not only Germans, but the brave workers in Russia." |