Show SENATOR TOR BURT BURTON N NI I IS SENTENCED f T fO Given Six Months Mon in Jail and a aFine aFine k Fine of 2500 by Judge Adams SAW SAID HE HAD NOTHING TO SAY Ills Ilis Is Offense Was Receiving Fees Ille Ihle Illegally gally gal from the Grain and Securities Company COURT SAYS VERDICT WAS JUST Evidence Abundantly Warranted and Judge Could Find Ind Xo No For It I I Kansas City Mo Iu April special I Ito to time the Star front torn St tt Isula lolis SIS say United d States Senator Joseph JOdeph U It I nor Hur Hurton i iton ton toll of ot Kansas al recently convicted ot of I from the tle Wallo Groin und Ind company as their attorney wn wot was today given slen u a L sentence of six In ill jail Jul and vote waa wa lined InC GO by b Judge Attains A I 8 In the time United States district court hero here hur IMPOSING Till TILE rl SENTENCE SI i St luls April Apri Burton Durton by I his imis leading attorney Judge JudKo Chester II li I Krum came Into tin th 11 United States district court at nt 1230 1231 1231 A cast was wan being tried mind ani Judge granted a I recess In that t lC o e to 10 take taku ak up the lie Burlon case cn e Judge Adams Senator Burton Durton to up UI and then timen B spoke oke of or till the motions that bad Iwen Ileen tiled filed for a 1 new trial and nn 1 for arrest t of or Judgment The Tho court ai af aitor n tor ler or briefly reviewing the motions over overruled oe overruled ruled them both Tim rime court then said to the timo defendant Have Ua you OU to say Bay all an as 1 to why wh sentence should riot not be bl linseed I upon you ou Trembling and 11 evidently suppressing I his imIs emotions with a t strong effort Sen Senator ator Burton t leaning with wih both IlOth hands on 01 a It am ni he paid sald lahS Yur honor wilt will wi please allow ni ow me to respectfully decline to say IU anything Time The courtroom wan wal empty with wih the time exception of u a I test few persons persona Interested In the tile previous cant timo had remained out of curiosity and the was almost oppressive ns as ni ludge Adams In Ill low iott 10 modulated tone began delivering the tie sentence to be Imposed ADAMS D IS SPEAKS PEAKS Time The court After a n fair and ant Imp trial by hy u It 1 jury of intelligence you 0 Oth have II been found fOi nil guilty guilt lit of or the tho charged in tin tilt Indictment against you youA OU OUA A motion for or a now new trial In your our behalf lists me 1110 an In opportunity f to carefully review and consider tile evidence As a IL I IC of ot this thil I am satisfied that the jury reached tile tho just jun and truo result rl I Tile The he evidence abundantly antly warranted their th lr verdict alId Ind I 1 find Ihl no 11 reason either lher In tim law gov gOY the til rn or In ill the tite Ihl trial for disturbing 1 It I Your conviction loc results In your Its IR Importance In Ill my lIly opinion t tl Is nut not to UH its 11 upon yoU jou IU Your In tn lift ti and tie diameter character or of your our give un to tn your our It I demon H that the tile law last ot or the Iho land Is to itt 11 1 e that It can ohm 1 Tic 1 JP regardless I of time the personality or ill I of or tl accused It I ul also n f to nil QI th tit Ihn that otee cannot t bo be to 10 Purposes null and 1111 that public Is not lint a IL sure Kur ami aint safe Ia fui 10 to thrift HU Ol W CONVICTION The Tue humiliation attending your OUr con Call and time the statutory w 1 tollS toll which for forever forer 1 ever er Incapacitate you 01 from frol holding lillY any of ot honor or trust under uller time the government Ir lt Is Ii 11 In itself a n heavy lel offense and nati leave lit little I Ile l for your our oten l I bo the tle le added In 11 tho the way ay of ot severity which could It K Is neither my 0 pleasure nor pur purro ro to 11 II Impost any allY 11 unnecessary aar pun lull lehment I think Iho tim of or the tile law Wilt will willbe wit be bB vIndicated and amud the wel wet welfare fare by b lm till posing a stogie at I Ie sentence warranted i ial an as al It U Is I on any ally Oi ono eno of tim the six counts of Indictments on Oil Oi which you OU w were re con THE rilE rE This will wi bo ho that you b be II hum n the I ron mn county jail Jai for a 1 period of or 1 f six aix t 1101 and 1111 that t 1111 you IU pay paya i a y a II fine of 2600 At Al the conclusion of tho time sentence Senator lurton who had lied not taken his eyes cyan 81 tho time court and ald who had Imal scarcely moved an us nl h h lie supported him hill himself self by ty I Ihl tle ha chill biteR back turned and amud Ind sat nut down with I Ih hit H head bowed and Ms Ills Ill eyes C on o the tU tie flour floor Atty Att JIJI Immediately filed fileda fed fedo a o bill III of Ir If exception in II tIme the case and of offered u mm I bond hont for which was WIS no 1 copied and ond court took luok a n recess until 2 tu to tl tiu previous case IRle Senator Hut ton and alt Judge JUlle Krum then thon hurriedly departed from time the tho courtroom 4 In the tho corridor flator stopped Ions 1011 enough to 10 light a 1 cigar and Ild then th to 10 his hOld MiI Hw lie II declined to ta tC j i dIscuss S tho tue s but bi said ald ho hIP hI would depart tonight for his horn homo In II Kansas f WILL 11 APPEAL CASK f I ease caiA will trill wil now be he appealed to tl the tho United K States lutes district court OUr of appeals the tue tribunal In tIle tho matter horton who IN is senIor senator r from troll Kansas utu tutie 11 convicted after an al if r IRu l trial In II which various let letters tern from frolli him to time the lallo Grain fi company tho th checks which 1 he received In lIt 1 payment for fo his hla hil services In ill 11 of or time tho concern before thu the Ant tIle the Ihl testimony of numer numerous OlIN ous OiS agents of or the thue government were tere In Sn Introduced Senator 1 was Will that ho he I WI merely 1 In II tile the capacity of or an In I attorney and did not 1101 employ his hil f tonal l In tho time work tork il At tilt tho Iw Southern hotel Senator Burton sail to tho Iho INI Press PIOS I O nothing whatever to tn say Iny re to regarding reo j garding tile the th verdict I must respect respectfully rO respectfully fully ful refer you 01 to 10 my attorneys on all al au questions concerning tho the matter mattor Senator Hurton then went directly to tl C Chit hit his hil room Vive Five later Inter Hugh C I DennIs president of the tho Groin Grain ft company knocked on the I door and 1111 wal admitted and tile the two I conversed together for Ol some time Ume I j |