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Show BABBEBS PLEAD GUILTY TO AVOID A LYUCHDrQ. . ' LEADVILLE, Colo., June 4. Rumors of - a lynching hurried the hearing of Stephen and Charles Impey, the two barbers charged with outraging a. number of lit- tie girls here, and who were arrested Sunday night. . Under a guard of ten deputy sheriffs L they were smuggled into the District - courtroom last night, where they pleaded guilty to the crimes charged and begged t be conveyed to a place of safety. ' They were sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary, the limit of the law, and . taken at once from the city. Judge Ow-rs Ow-rs in pronouncing sentence bewailed the fact that they were escaping with such a light sentence. - - |