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Show NEW YORKER GETS 2-YEAR PRISON TERM NEW YORK, June 20 (U.R) Martin T. Manton, highest ranking jurist ever to be convicted con-victed of a crime in this country, coun-try, was sentenced today to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for selling justice in his former capacity as senior judge of the circuit court of appeals. ap-peals. The 58-year-old Manton, erect and defiant, received the maximum maxi-mum sentence in a court room where he had often presided as senior judge of the appeals court, a position second only to that of justices of the United States supreme su-preme court. Judge Chestnut, after hearing more tJian two hours of argument, passed sentence on the white-haired white-haired former jurist, convicted last June 5 of accepting bribes and loans totaling S700.000 from litigants in his court, with the remark re-mark that the penalty "seems inadequate." in-adequate." "All public offices' Judga Chestnut said, "are public trusts, , but the judicial office is even mora it is sacred.1' He said that Judge Manton waj a person whose "great personaV fortune" influenced his conduct. When it was jeopardized during the depression years, the judge said, Manton attempted to save it by using thepoweivand influence of his great position to obtain money." Judge Chesnut placed the defendants de-fendants in the custody of their attorneys and later in the day released re-leased them in $10,000 bail pending pend-ing appeals. Vo??'!i Find'Entsrtainsiisnt Galore Races :: Carnival :: Ball GaiKes and a ilig tfaudsvills M frm fliistralla lkrm$ti Boliywood! FIREWORKS mmamm n i n mm mimtai-wm ir n i m, in -u am niii.i, rwfl (ht i i ' AjjMi hm iiiJit J |