Show BANKERS GET FIVE fR YRS YEARS Ida April ril 4 A A minimum ent nee of five hc years in inthe inthe inthe the Ce federal wa was imposed cd h by United St State District Distri District t Iid o o Robert S. S Bean an today William P. P lJ- lJ and George II 11 I Ivester Kester estT former and c hier hir of or the Lewiston National bank hank of If J. J Lewiston Idaho Idalio ho wore were last ni night ht found guilty Jt by lIr a jury jur on the tho charge of falsifying nC reports to the comptroller of curr currency nc On in indictments in charging in abstraction lb tracton of the thc funds of the hank bank they were found fount not CU guilty i It In lu pa passing in sentence 1110 Bean Dean said Iio ht consil rd tho the punishment provided pro by b law Jaw too sc severe but that lie he hail had no choice in in the matter He lie overruled o a t motion for n a new 11 trial trial but granted a stay Ita of or execution of sentence nJ an PP appeal lt anti and fixed bonds hond at each etch allowing the convicted men jiten ten days ws in w w- w ch to provide pro a t bond hondo It is if in case casc that the judg Of the lower court is iM sustained an nn immediate effort to procure procuro pardons pardon will willbe willbe be ma made p. p tho the statement of Judge Bean in passing sentence to bo used as a basis for such Mich action and md Kester o have twice been tried in tho the federal court courtin in Idaho on criminal charges chares They were convicted con at nt Lewiston four years ago of conspiracy to defraud the thc govern government o ern meat ment out of timber lands but they secured secured se se- se cured a reversa rc reversal in the tho United States district court of appeals On their second sec see ond trial in this city one year ago ao titer they the were acquitted The caso case of Frank w. w Kettenbach undo of W W. F. F Kettenbach Ketten- Ketten bach char charged ed with the abstraction of pt ot tho banks bank's funds is set act for trial April 11 |