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Show SUPREME CDURT ACAINSTBURTOK Former United States Senator Sena-tor Will Have to Don the Stripes of Convict Case of Kansas Man Convicted of Accepting Ac-cepting Fees From Grain Company Com-pany Hat Been Dragging Along for Years and Every Legal Remedy Exhausted. Washington. Tho Supreme court of tho United States has denied tho petition peti-tion of formor United States Senator IJurton of Kansas for n rehenrlng In tho caso In which ho Ib under sen-tonco sen-tonco of lmprlBonmcnt and flno undor tho chnrgo of accepting an attorney's feo in a enso In which tho government was Interested while ho was serving as senator. Tho uffect of tho decision will bo tho immediate imprisonment of Iturton unless his attorney's dovlso Bomo other means of postponing tho execution of tho xentonco. Thoro wnB no formal announcement of tho decision In tho llurton caso In open court, tho chief Justlco merely hnndlng a brief memorandum to tho clerk of tho court Just beforo convening. conven-ing. Tho caso of llurton has beon before tho court slnco 1903, when ho was Indicted In-dicted in St. Louis on tho charge of accepting a feo for representing tho Itlnlto Urnln company of that city in an effort to debar It from tho uso of tho United Stntcs malls. Ho was found guilty and sentenced to sorvo six months In Jail and pay a flno of $2,500. On appeal to tho supremo court tho decision wns roversod on a technicality and a second trial was ordered. Tho second vordlct was ldonticnl with tho first, and It wns affirmed af-firmed by tho supremo court. Tho affirmation af-firmation wns announced Just boforo tho closo of Uio court in Mny Inst. Tho motion for n rehenrlng was then filed. It was claimed In Ilurton's bo-half bo-half that tho court had not had tho real facts boforo It In considering tho case. |