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Show ROSS GIVEN 60 DAYSJN JAIL Farmer Who Caused S. P. ! Train to Stop Begins Sentence i Sixty days in the county Jail was the sentence meted out yesterday aft- ernoon to John V. Rosa of Plain City, j after he had entered plea of guilty I to a charge of destroying and intor-feflng intor-feflng with the signal system of a ' railroad. The sentence was passed I by Judge A. W. Agee in the district ! court. ! The sentence for tho offense is said to be unusually light for the nature ! of the offense, but owing to the fact that Ross, who was recently dl9-I dl9-I charged from the army, has a wife j and child in Plain City, the railroad company and the prosecution asked ! th- court for lenlencj. Ross confessed u Sheriff H. C. ! Peterson at the time of his arrest. I September 3. thai ho alone was responsible re-sponsible for stopping a train at , Little Mountain. He said he was pr,r-I pr,r-I tlally under the influence of home W When he tore up a battery signal 1 and broke the Wires which set the signal at "danger " Ho was arrested following day In a hayfleld near 1 his home in Plain City and confessed j his escapade, the sheriff sale Moss began eervlng his sentence immediately im-mediately after tho court session yes-I yes-I tcrday. 00 |