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Show TEARS-IN" COURTROOri Forger and His Mother ' Weep When Sentence Is. Imposed. . v Judge Morse this morning sentenced 'Jack Wilkinson, who pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery, to two years at hard labor in the State prison. The Information again Jt Wilkinson charged that on September IL 1902, the defendant forged the name of Gilbert Pidcock to a time check for 341.80 on the Oregon Short Line Railway company. com-pany. When the prisoner waived time for sentence and was asked if he had anything to say before sentence was imposed upon him. said: "I have resolved to take the punishment punish-ment for this offense and have resolved to be a better man in the future. For the sake of my mother and my wife, I ask that the court be lenient and impose im-pose a light sentence upon me." District Attorney Elchnor stated to the court; that the defendant had been convicted -of petit larceny and that a charge of grand larceny was now hanging hang-ing over him. : . Sentence was then pronounced by the court. The defendant and his mother, who was present, both broke down and wept, and it was found necessary to assist as-sist the prisoner's mother from the courtroom. |