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Show j TWENTY YEARS FOR COLORED BURGLAR This piorning, In Judge Harris division di-vision of the district court, appeared William Mathas. colored, the self-- self-- confessed burglar ot numerous counts for sentence, and, without reservation reserva-tion or reluctance. Judge Harris de-j de-j dared that the fellow should be taken tak-en to the state penitentiary and con-: con-: fined for a period of twenty years. Mathas will be an old man when he emerges from the penitentiarv, even 'il no other prosecutions be directed against hlt. He is about 30 years of ;ge and, according to his record, has spent much of that time in the com-mision com-mision of crime He is an ex-convict, nd. it is said, that he has not I vet served his time for past offenses, j the state of Oeorcia still holding a claim on him for an unfulfilled leim in the penitentiarv for burglary The offense for which Mathas was sentenced to twenty years In tho Utah prison was the burglarizing of Farl Geiger's home, on Twenty -eighth street, February 13, to which he pleaded guilty He entered the neier home and took a rinK and "a re volver. He confessed to other crimes, having hav-ing burglarizing the Troy laundry office of-fice on Wall avenue and the Carr drug store on Twenty-fifth street, but he will not he prosecuted on those charges at this lime. |