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Show IRISH AGITATOR GETS ! SENTENCE IN PRISON j i NEW YORK, May 5. Extraordinary precautions were taken today when James J. Larkin, Irish agitator, con- j victed last week of criminal anarchy i was sentenced to from five to ten i years in state prison with hard labor. Fifteen detectives commanded by Sergeant James J. Gegan, of the bomb i squad, and several deputies headfed by i Sheriff David H. Knott, guarded the court room, which was filled with Larkin Lar-kin sympathizers. One young woman was rebuked by ; the court when she rose and attempt- ed to take Larkln's hand as he was ; led away. i Called to the bar, the woman saidr "I simply rose thinking I would be j permitted to show respect in that man- ner for tho man for whom perhaps I have more respect than any other, i thought I would be allowed to rise as one does for the judge of the court." i Several women shook hands with Larkin and tho mother of former Assemblynlan Gitlow, now serving sentence sen-tence for criminal anarchy, embraced htm. ( oo |