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Show FINAL EPISODE IN LUSK TRIAL1 Teacher Convicted of Murder of Mrs. Roberts Given 19 Years at Hard Labor. WAUKESHA. Wis., June IS.-The final episode In the trial of Grace Lusk, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, wife of the former Wisconsin state veterinarian, was enacted en-acted here this afternoon when Judge Martin Yusck sentenced Ihe former school mistress to nineteen years Imprisonment Im-prisonment at hard labor, in the Wisconsin Wis-consin state penitentiary at Waupun Sentence was pronounced after a com-mittee com-mittee of alienists appointed by the court had examined Miss Lusk and pronounced her sane. She will be taken to prison tomorrow, provided she recovers from the collapse she suffered when sentence was pronounced. pronoun-ced. In pronouncing sentence, the court delivered a severe arraignment both Of Miss Dusk and of Dr. David Rob' rts, whose intimacy with Miss Lusk extended ex-tended over a period of a year led to the murder in June, 1&17. of his wife by the woman sentenced today. "You and Dr. Roberts assailed society so-ciety at its mot sensitive and vulnerable vulner-able point," the court said. "You assailed as-sailed the home and neither of you had any right to deprive Mr. Roberts of those rights that become her s when Dr Roberts took her a-s his wife. "Some circumstances in this case cast greater blame upon Dr Roberts than upon you. Still you had no right to yield. You wero experienced in the world, you had .1 c. I education and I do not believe 1h.1t In this case the minimum enicnce provided by the law meets the situation. Your offense demands more punishment. "But you do not deserve the maximum maxi-mum sentence either, because of the blame attaching to the acts of Dr. j Roberts Men hi . 1 ,. ; imukl he discouraged. "The medium Is difhult to determinewhat deter-minewhat is fair to you and right to- ' ward society, it tj a question difficult ol -olution and the best I can do is j make an honest guess." As the sentence was pronounced BiiSB Lusk, who had been standing al the court rail, collapsed into the anus ' of her attorney and was carried from tho room, unconscious Tonighi be was iu a hysterical condition in the county jail and it seemed doubtful J whether she could be taken to prison tomorrow in an automobile as had 1 been planned. Miss Lusk was convicted of second j decree murder after a trial which, be- ' cause of ihe sensational details of her! relationship with Dr Roberts, attracted attract-ed nation-wide attention. on |