| Show I GETS OETS TWENTY YEARS FOR ASSAULT Sentence Imposed on George W V Long at Richfield Today for the Shooting of Sheriff Clark Eighteen Months For Por Johnson Special rS t olal to thi thu th News Jon Jan JO This morning be being lug ing time the time Mt set for tor pawing passIng p sentence on George W iS Long for time tilt assault of Sheriff Clark Clark the tha prisoner was wan W S taken tahiti Judge Judie McCarty for tor that purpose Much Interest wintered centered In the time CAM and there thre WM 8 a large attendance In tho thu court room when Lang stood tood up to re receive recell cell time the Ih penalty for tor Ills hits crime emline which Judge JUlip McCarty fixed at twenty years III In the time state prison John A Johnson was nS sentenced to t tI I c months In the th same Institution for lor assault with deadly weapon on the tho th person of ot Special Correspondence t SI r Co Jan 19 Tho trial of ot George W iv Long hong commonly known as a louey Long tot for the shoot lug hiI of ot Sheriff Sherler W V II H Clark Clork on the of ot Jut November created tho the most niost In imm Interest terest of ot any ease Clue ever nor tried In this district The fhe ease case ca e begun on Friday l Horning and end lasted hasted Until hate lato when time the jury Jon rendered a n verdict of ot as assault 0 sault asuit lI with a f deadly weapon with Intent to commit murder The state was represented by District Attorney ChIt Chi Chidester dester anti and County Count Attorney Erickson v ts time tile defendant was WAil represented by W iv K I Reid and C M Coomb Th The state made mads out a strong coo cato showing that Long Lon hid hall made threats against the tho betor the time shooting occurred end anti further that he ire lied had an arm utter die for human life as he hind Imd en enl entered l red the house of Joseph Colby a neighbor of his a few minutes before beforetime time the shooting and hal hail leveled the gun gua on Colby and amid moths made him hum do his bidding Time The defense was waa that Long was being hounded by QUO one Nephi who va was trying to blackmail him by charging ing him with Intimacy with wife anti and that when Long refused to pay poy money the tue latter had threatened to 0 fix him and was after him him with a gun and that when Long must mot Sheriff Clark tIme the evening of time the shoot log Ing being under the Influence of liquor IM he mistook Mom him tot for and shot him Long has haa served one term teim In the tho penitentiary for shooting at a t man la Iii faUna in 1590 He lIe has haa a wife and four little helpless children He It receives Mice on oem Monday Yesterday In the district court In hi the thu matter mattor of time the estate of R 1 J Cowley deceased Lydia Cowley was appointed administratrix of the estate |
