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Show .. w t EX-CITY ATTORNEY ' WILL GO TO JAIL. ' ; Provo. April 10. In the Fourth diss- : trict court here today Robert Ander- K son ex-city attornoy of Provo, who -l was charged with "a felony, .pleaded j V gulty jp a misdemeanor, he com-' , plnluant is Anna Phillips, a girl under 1 the age of 18 ears, who Is now an wf Inmate ot thc State Industrial school ML of Ogden Anderson's sentence Is to " be pronounced April 20. The max!- fj mupi penalty for tho lesser offense is 1J $100 fine or six months in tho CDuntyfjJ Jail, and District Attorney IIareyft? Cluff stated today that an agreement r had been entered into between the 7! prosecution and defense whereby An- t: derson was permitted to plead guilty f J to the lessei offense and is to be sen-S ? tenced to six months in the county jail, i At the time c the offense was al"l leged to have been committed Ander Ci sou was the city attorney of ProvoS and was a married man." but sinco j then Mrs. Anderson has been grantedS i a dhorce on the grounds of Infidelity! ; and Anderson resigned from thc of-Ji !i flee of city attornoy. jmi During the 1910 political campalgnmj Uncle Jesse Knight, In a speech nlfllK thu Provo opera house, made rcfcrfi ence to Anderson's alleged offense; C'. subsequently Anderson entered sultijjr against Knight for $50,000 dnniagesai for libel. Anderson was then nrrestoifalu on the folony charge and after tho MW preliminary hearing dismissed the ac- tion against Knight ! Ph |