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Show OLEO MANICURE John F, Jslke of Chicago laSintBnjp-ed laSintBnjp-ed to Two Years and ' Fined VOflOQ ' ' ' U Chicago. May 4. John F. Jelke, oleowargoriuo 'manufacturer, -wJ,iln-' d 110,000 today and. sentenced to! two years In jail for conspiracy to Defraud the government, of taxes' on- lllltlUy. colored oleomargarine: Seven other defendants'ln,the oleomargcrlne cases most of them J connected In various capacities" 'with the John F. Jelke company1, were fined f25,600 each' by Judge Oelger In the United States t 1 1 t district court Those fined )2,500wcre William M. Steele, general manager of r the John F. Jelke company; Harry F. Hitching. salesman; Hugh D. Cameron, Milwaukee Mil-waukee representative; D. B. Tulls, former salesman; W. L. Lllllard, former for-mer salesman;; William P. Jackson, former manager of George P. Braun company taken over by Jelke, and Fred Knnpp, former salesman for the nrnun company. The eight wero found guilty after a long trlaL Motions for a new trial wero argued at length beforo the court, and each Instance denied. J. F. Jelko was given the maximum penalty penal-ty by tho court. The government charged all tho defendants de-fendants with entering Into a conspiracy con-spiracy to violate the Internal reven uo laws by selling white oleomarger-lne oleomarger-lne to retailers and teaching thfm how to color It illicitly nnd sell'Jt'Ati retail without paying the federal tax of ten cents a pound. Jelke was released on $20,000 bonds tonight pending the filing- of a writ of error In his appeal.. Bonds for the other defendants were fixed at $5,000 each. Called, to the bar of the court, Jelke was asked If ho had anything to'jfay beforo sentence was imposed. I have been in business In thj community com-munity for more ttian twenty e was tho' reply. "I have had an honorable honor-able career. I do not nek, any thing forlpiyselt but what Is Justice. For the other defendants I ask clemency, as I tnko the entire responsibility of the case on myself. i Pronouncement of his lino nnd or' der of imprisonment followed- after a short pause In which all In tho court room gazed at the millionaire pleading plead-ing for morcy for his employees nnd accepting hla fate without murmur. Nono of the seven fined with JeWe had anything to say when they were sentenced. |