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Show STIFF TERMS FOR WHITE SLAVERS IN LEAVENWORTH JAIL Gould Mast Spends Seven nd One-half Tears in Government Prison. Herbert Gould, aevan years and eU montha In, tha government prtaoe, at Lea-van Lea-van worth. William Slegel. feur ysars In tha government gov-ernment prison at Leavenworth. Euene Y. Hughes, alz months In the county jail. , . May E. Brown, to be sentenced tomorrow tomor-row morning. After declaring that In hie opinion the white lave law paeaed by congreaa waa constitutional. Judge Page Morrle thla morning paaaed the above aentencea on three 7 those Indicted by the recant federal fed-eral grand Jury on the charge of having violated the law. and recently tried. When court convened at t.SO o'clock J. E. Iwlnanhn, counsel for Gould, commenced com-menced a lengthy argument in which he tried to convince the court that the law la not constitutional. He argued that It waa a pollye power and that congress had no right to provide any polloa regulation for any of the slates. District Attorney H. E. Booth replied on behalf of the government. At the conclusion con-clusion of the argument Judge Morris reviewed re-viewed some of the decisions of tha supreme su-preme court of the United States In other Interstate commerce cases. He gave It aa hia opinion thai .congress bad the right to enact a law to prohibit the taking of women from one state to another for Immoral Im-moral ptrrpoeee. Judge Morris also overruled over-ruled a motion for additional time In which to present more argument. Ha then passed sentence aa above. After being out for a HtUe over two heure Saturday afternoon, the Jury In the case against Herbert Gould. May B. Brown and Raymond Thotnpeon returned a verdict of not guilty against Thompson and one of guilty against Gould and tha Brown woman. The trio were charged with having taken Com Frohm, a seventeen-year-old girl, from Utah to Pocalal-lo. Pocalal-lo. Ida. Anna Matilda Anderson, tha alleged vlo. tlm of William 8legel. left for New York City yesterday In charge of Immigration Agent J. C. Hlae. She will be deported to Sweden, whence aha came about three year ago. |