Ogden Morning Examiner and Morning Standard | 1909-02-21 | Page 7 | To Serve Thirty Years

TO SERVE THIRTY I I YEARS Bledsoe Extortionist rt ion is t I Given Maximum 0 Sentence KanSOR City Fob 20 Robert bert B Bledsoc e of or Dallas D Texas who nho on Tuesday ay last entered the tho home homo of Law Lawrence rence renco I Jones a millionaire mol mer merchant chant of or this city and attempted to ox ex extort tort from him was sentenced to thirty years In tho penitentiary penItential here today torla Bledsoe entered a plea pIon of ot guilty to tho charge of oC attempted robbery robber Judge Ralph W Latshaw of or the crim cnn criminal criminal inal court before whom he was ar arraigned reigned said cald he regretted that thal ho he could not sentence to a n longer longor term Ho He said that th the crime was WM tho the most diabolical one ho had hod ever heard of In answer to a n question from the tho court Bledsoe maintained that he lie had no confederates nor did lid he ho havo hao any Intention of exploding the bomb with which he had threatened Mr Jones and the tho wife and son who camo came to his hie assistance Ho merely used It It ho said to Intimidate tho the mil millionaire Mr Jones Jonos however told the tho court that after he hi had hod captured Bled BledSoe soo Soe the tho man kept k pt crying Why the thing go off ott