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Show EDWARD POWERS HSS BEEN SENTENCES TD PENITENTIARY Edward Powers, charged with assault as-sault with a deadly weapon with Intent In-tent to do great bodily harm, was sentenced sen-tenced to the state penitentiary for a term not to exceed five years by Judge A. W. Agee in distrilc court this morning. morn-ing. Powers was convicted of an .alleged attack on Mrs. Gertrude Braby on the night of January 12 on Twenty-second ( street, when sho was knocked down ; and received a scalp wound from a gun wielded by her assailant. He con- : fessed to the attack but stated that ho had been hired by Mike Sullivan to ; meet his, Sullivan's, wife, Margarot Sullivan, and beat her. The judge took the fact that Powers was merely j a tool in Sullivan's hands into consideration consid-eration when ho passed sentence. oo |