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Show DR. HOTOPP IS GIVEN SENTENCE IN PRISON SALT LAKE, Aug. 8. Dr. Theodore Hotopp pleaded guilty yesterday before be-fore Judge J. Louis Brown of the Third district court to a charge of Iravlng performed upon Mrs. Elizabeth Weiss an illegal operation, from the effect of j which she died last Sunday morning I in the Groves L. D. S. hospital. He was sentenced to an indeterminate term In the state prison. A full written confession was made by Dr. Hotopp and given into tho 1 hands of the county attorney. It was afterward turned over to the court. The accused man waived preliminary hearing and all other court privileges, asking that sentence bo passed at once. The written confession had, over his signature, details of every proceeding proceed-ing in connection with the operation and cprroborates the dying statement of Mrs. Weiss in all essential details. In the confession Hotopp states that he is a habitual drunkard. |