OCR Text |
Show LIFE FOR ROBBERS WHO USE POWDER Conviction for First Degree Burglary Will Mean Long Term in Prison If House Passes Bill. . Burglars who use dangerous explosives explo-sives in plying their occupation, and are found guilty, will get practically life imprisonment if the bill passed by the Senate yesterday meets the same reception in the House. A hard fight was made on the bill iu the Senate. The father of the measure mea-sure is Senator Charles R. Hollings-worth. Hollings-worth. It changes the present law so that for a person found, guilty of burglary bur-glary in the first degree, which includes in-cludes the use of "dangerous explosives, the penalty shall be from twenty-five to fort.v years in the penitentiary. Senator Sen-ator Clcgg endeavored to have tho bill amended so that the minimum penalty shall be ten years, but the amendment was lost. The bill passed by a vote of eleven to five. The Senate also passed Senate bills Xos. 12S, 03, 118, and House bill No. 27. The first mentioned relates to privileged communications, the second is the burglary bill, and the third provides pro-vides for the convention of State health officials. II. B. No. 27 relates to false assays and publication of ore assays. I Favorable committee reports were received and adopted on Senate bills Nos. 133, 84 and 85, and House bills Nos. 42, 45 and 31. None of the measures mea-sures are of any particular importance. The only bill introduced was bv Miller, Mil-ler, an dappropriates $5000 for "build- ing a bridge over the Kio Virgin river in Washington county. It was referred to the Roads and Bridges committee. The Senate adojurned until Monday. |