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Show STRIPPEDOF OFFICE JURIST IS FOREVER DISQUALIFIED DISQUALI-FIED FROM HOLDING POSITION OF PUBLIC TRUST. Disgraced and Dishonored Jurist In-alata In-alata That H Haa Committed No Wrong in Spite of the Dciitlon of Senate Jury, Washington. Hobert V. Arhlbnld of Hcranton. Pa., for twenty-nine y(.!,r an occupant of Judicial position u;ioii the Pennsylvania Mate bem-h, t i- red ral dimrU-t lench and the rrii:-, t;tats commerce court, was al u !(! pui.'ty on Monday by tho tnl:e I Statei senate of ' hih crime an 1 mlde meanors." was ctrlpped of his offi?i end forever Ulsqualini-d rro;n l.oldlnp Irosltions of public boner cr publU truHt. . The conviction and Judiine-t ram s the conclusion of th l:iip !inn-ni trial that lias bef n pen Hnx In t ie sen ate since last summer oa charges inn Judge Archbald hud bi--n ti i ty o misconduct and mlsbr h nior as i Judgo and that he hid me I rorruptli his Judicial power to further the pri vate Interehts of hlmnelf and hti friends, In the acqullti( u of coal pro; ertles In Pennsylvania. Upon Ave of the thirteen neparati charge brought against hi in by tli bouse of representatives, Judje Arch bald was found guilty. I'pon the o'he eight the senate voted him not guilty the majority in some chs belni against him, but failing of the two thirds majority, necessary for convlc tion. Any one of the five verdicts o guilty waa enough to bring about thi punishment Imposed upon hini. Tho vote on the first charge, tha Judge Archbald had ccrruptly lr fiuenced officials of the Krle rallroa to m 11 hi in the Katydid culm dump e Bcranton. resulted In his convktio by a vote of 68 to S. Sentence was Imposed by Senate ftaron of Georgia, the presiding o fleer, after the senate by a vote of 3 to 35, upheld a resolution offered b Senator O"0ornan of New York, at thorizlng the full penalty provided b the constitution. After sentence had bee-n Impose upon blm Judge Archibald and h! family left the capitol. to go at one to the family home at Scranton. "I always have known that 1 hav done no wrong, and the vote of no or makes It otherwise," was bla on! comment upon the senate's action. |
