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Show Maine Only State Missed In His Round of Prisons CROWN POINT, IND. Jefferson Sharun, a kindly-faced old man with silver hair, smiled up at the judge. "Well, your honor, I've now been sentenced to prison in every state in the Union except Maine." "How did you evade Maine?" asked the judge. "Maine was too small," Sharun replied, adding, "but you can take it from me that crime does not nav " . ..uv Sharun and his two accomplices had been sentenced to 2 to 14 years in prison for mulcting $6,000 from Ben I. Schultz, a Gary, Ind., junk dealer. Schultz told the court that Sharun told him he had a scheme to "break" all small race-horse handbooks. Sharun left a farm in Daviess county, Ind., and eventually became a clever "con" man. In a small cell, Sharun leaned back and talked smoothly. "I never took an honest man. i always took a sucker and never felt sorry for them because they were trying to get something for nothing too." |