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Show WILL TAKE SENTENCE Charles Meighan Gives . Up Effort to Secure a New Trial. Charles Meighan, the former postmaster of Ogden, convicted of the technical embezzlement em-bezzlement of United States Government funds and sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary, will go before Judge Marshall tomorrow and ask that the court's order suspending sentence for sixty six-ty days, be vacated, and that the sentence be executed at once. Meighan and his attorneys have come to this conclusion after a deliberate consideration consid-eration of the case. Meighan says he has neither money nor inclination to go on with an appeal, and since the Jury's verdict ver-dict exonerated him of criminal intent in the embezzlement, he fepls ready to begin his sentence and have the suspense and worry over. As to the matter of seeking a pardon, Meighan has nothing to say except that it will be left In the hands of his friends. |