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Show 00 EN MB GIVEN year's mm Reno, Js'ov. July 11 H. S. Harris, the young man who passed bogus checks In this city, receMng money and merchandise In return, changed his pie to guilty and this morning appeared In district court for sentence. sen-tence. His attorney made a plea for him on account of his youth and Judge Moran sentenced him to serve one year In the Nevada penitentiary. Harris was In the forestry service of the government at Ogden until ho came to Reno while en route to San Francsco Hero he became penniless penni-less and passed bogus checks. He wept bitterly while Judge CMoran was pronouncing sentence and stated that he was the only support of an aged mother In Ogden. His mother. Mrs. J. D. Harris, wrote a pitiful letter from Tucker, Utah, to the officers here, telling of hor efforts ef-forts to make her son an honorable man. Her homo has long been in Ogden Og-den and her family connections are of high class. "Bo as light on tho boy as you possibly can for the sake of his heartbroken mother," she ends her letter oo |