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Show SENTENCED FOR SERIOUS CRIME New York, Oct. 22. Leonhardt Berklein, fireman on tho steamer Commanche, who was convicted of manslaughter for the killing at sea of another member of the crew, was sentenced sen-tenced in tho federal district court today to serve five years in tho United Stales penitentiary at Atlanta, Atlan-ta, Ga. Berklein's case attracted considerable consider-able public attention because the offensive of-fensive charged murder of the high seas, brought his case under federal jurisdiction and conviction for murder, mur-der, under tho federal law, mean3 hanging. Plow to reconcile this with the law of Now York, which provides for electrocution was the subject cf public curiosity. Federal Judge Sheppard, however, in his charge to the jury, lessened the offense to manslaughter and the jury found a verdict in accordance with the instructions. |