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Show CAPTAINMg i Owner of Yacht Must Serve Time in Federal Prison for Arson. Boston, March 13. Captain John I A. Fish of New York today was sen- J tenced to five years in the federal prison at Atlanta for burning his yacht, Senta In Edgartown harbor, on October 2-1. 1910, in order to obtain ?15,000 insurance money. An appeal on a writ of orror was taken and this acted as a stay, but in default of security Fish was sent to jail. In moving sentence United States District Attorney French stated that Fish when 21 years old deserted from the United States army. At the time he was an orderly at West-point. West-point. Friends of the prisoner from New York asked the court to be lenient and told of acts of bravery while in the British army in South Africa, which earned him service medals. Judge Hale said that the maximum penalty for barratry was imprisonment imprison-ment "for life, but that in view of the fact that Fish had saved tho lives of those on board the burning yacht, he would sentence him to fivo years only. nn |