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Show HE .AXE BOOK CASUS ENDED Three Defendants Found Guilty and Given Prison Sentences by Judge. Boston, March 2G. The jury in the so-called "Do Luxe" book case today returned a verdict of guilty against the three defendants, Glen F. Farmer Farm-er and James Powers of New York, and Samuel Rosenfield of Chicago. Rosenfield and Farmer were sentenced sen-tenced to stale prison, the former for a term of six to eight yenrs and the latter for three to five years. Both obtained stay of sentence on notice of appeals. Powers was given two and a half years in tho house of correction correc-tion and accepted his sentence without with-out notice of appeal. The men were accused of conspiracy conspir-acy to defraud Mrs. Mary L. Rogers of this city, and of the larceny from her of $87,000 by Inducing her to advance ad-vance money for the purchase of what were represented to be rare volumes. |