Show four men found gully of defraud ing state of pennsylvania in supplying furniture sentenced to two years linar son ment and a F ne of but have been granted ba I 1 pend ng appeal to super or court harrisburg pa two years imvris cament and a fine of the maxi mum penalty was the sentence meted cut friday by judge kucbel in the county court to each of the four men who were convicted of de the state in connection with the furnishing of the capitol building in this city dimmed abely after sen tence was pronounced the defendants ere remanded to the custody of the 1 I ariff and taken to a side room pend ing application for i supersedeas was made in the superior court at philadelphia after notice of the cn tence here wag given As soon as it was granted the defendants gave tall pending appeal to the superior court the four defendants are john H sanderson philadelphia contractor for the furniture james M shu r aker johnstown superintendent of the board of public grounds and build ings at the the contract tor fur was let william P snyder spring city and will am L matheus media respectively auditor general and state treasurer during the oper atlon of the contract and by virtue of positions members of the board cf grounds and buildings the men were convicted of defrauding the diate out of 19 08 in a contract for furniture other charges in evolved large sums in the aggregate the men were tried last spring and alst week they were refused a new trial the men convicted friday were tried a second acquitted of charge of defrauding the state in a metal furniture contract |