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Show - i SCION OF CELEBRATED AMERICAN NOVEL13T 8ENTENCED TO PRISON Now York, Mnr. 14 Tho Hawthorn mining trial, which has dragged along al-ong nearly four months before a Jury In tho federal court here camo to a conclusion today with tho convict-Ion convict-Ion ot three of tho defendants Julian Hawthorne, Dr. William J. Morton and Albert Freoman, and tho acquittal acquit-tal ot Joslah Qulncy, twice mnyor of Doston and assistant secretary ot stnto during Clovoland's administration administra-tion Hawthorne, Morton nnd Freeman wero found guilty of making fraudulent fraudu-lent uso of tho malls In soiling stock In Canadian mining claims. Qulncy, oxonornted by Unltod Stntes Judges Mayer on nil counts of five Indictments Indict-ments boforo tho caso reached tho Jury, was held not guilty on the ro-mnlnlng ro-mnlnlng indictment of consplracv In allowing his nnm0 to bo used In promoting pro-moting tho stock. The Jury wns out twenty-sovon hours. Judgo Mayer paroled Qulnei- until next October, when ho Is directed to nppenr In nnswep to two inllctmcnl? still pending ngalnst him. Freeman n New York b itlnoss man for tweny bIx years wna sentenced to flvo years in tho fedenl pen'to.ntlary nt Alnntti, HawthoriK', son ot Nnth-nnlel Nnth-nnlel Hawthorne, 'hi novella; and himself nn author and Dr. William J. Morton, son of Dr. W. T. O. Morton the first user of cthor In surgical operations each wero fenttneed to ono year and one da nt Alanta. Freeman's Free-man's piisou Bcnnr.jj is to d.ito from tho first of the prjii; year, nnd tho terms o' Hawthorn.) nnd Moihui from November 25 tho dav tho trial wns begun. ' Of tho twenty-seven counts against tho thrco men found guilty. Frecmnn wns acquitted of four and Hawthorne nnd Morton of seven each. Judgo Mayor Ma-yor granted a ten-day stay to allow nn appeal. |