Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-07-11 | Page 6 | Harris Gets Year in State's Prison

HARRIS GETS YEAR IN STATE'S PRISON RENO. NevM July 11 H. 8. Harris, the young man who aaasod boerus cheeks tn thla city, receiving money and mar chapdlsa In return for them, changed hU plea to guilty and yesterday ap-. ap-. pearad In the district court fur sentence sen-tence His attorney made a plea for him on sccount of his youth and Judas Moran sentenced him to servo ono year In Nevada nenlteDtlsrv. Hsrrls was in lite forestry service of the government at Ogden until he came to Reno while en route to San F i an cisco. Here ha became oennlleaa and passed boarue checks to get some moaey. He wept bitterly while Judae Moran wss talking to him and stated that ho was the only support of aa aged toother In Ogden. The scene was pathetic and dimmed the evea of many spectators. His mother. moth-er. Mrs. J. D. Harris, wrote a pitiful letter from Tucker to the officers hetw, - telling of her efforts to make her son an honorable man. Her homo lias long sen In Oaden and family connections of high class and well known there. "fte as light on the boy aa you possibly esn for the sske of his heartbroken mut her." she ends her letter.