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Show SWINDLING PROMOTERS I GIVEN JAIL SENTENCES . I Sentences Imposed On Officer and Agents Of Sterling Debenture Company Now York, April 7. Seven former ofiicers and agents of tho Sterling Debenture company today received prison sentences of from three lo six years for ubIhb tho United Status malls to defraud Investors In tho stock of enterprises promoted by their corporation. In Bending them to tho federal penltentlnry at Atlanta Atlan-ta Judge Anderson declared that although al-though tho defendants maintained that they wo'o penniless they had In fact mado millions nt the cponso of thousands of victims throughout tho country. The heaviest sentence, six ears, was Imposed on George 1L Middle-brook Middle-brook of Chicngo, first vlco prcsl-' prcsl-' dent; Frank Shumakcr, a former president, nnd Henry II . II . Piatt, n minor officer. Benjamin Mudge, president of the Oxford Linen mills of North Brook-field, Brook-field, Mnss., wns given a rour year term. Ho was n chemist and Inventor, Inven-tor, whoao alleged dlscocry of a proces to mnko flax yarn from flax straw at an enormous saving, was widely advertised by the company In, "'' Its campaign for tho snlo of tho Ox-1'" ,"1'' 'H ford Linen m'lls stock. ' Mr' , iJ,f" JH Three year sentences wero imposed "'J 'Jf""' iJ on Wilbur M. Stone, a patent Wort Wtff"' '' j Elwyn A. Barron, a phospecttia wrl-f J tcr, nnd W. S. Edwards. H Judgo Anderson directed that a " t'r,,'' H fino of $10,000 bo entered against tho '"''' 'H Sterling Dcbenturo corporation. If ' rH this money Is uncollcrtlhlo It Is un- ;H derstood, Kenneth M. Spence, tho jH federal assistant dlstr'ct attorney jH who prosecuted tho case, will bring a H liability suit against Mlddlcbrook who H according to Information reaching tho tH government still Is possessed of tH Judge Anderson suspended scntonco. jH on Samuel F. rinley, second vlcoj jH 1 resident of tho debenturo corpora-'', tion, who plcnded guilty on tho evo H of the trial nud testified for tho gov- H ernment. Tho scntenco of Frank E. v fc H Wlnchell, formor- president of tho f H Oxford Linen mills, who also plead- H ed guilty and testified for tho gov- .jH ernment, was deforred until next f H October. H Thero wero rumors about tho fed- H cral building that Mlddlcbrook and M Stono would appeal their cases. H |