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Show LANDIS GIVES SHARP REBUKE TO PRESIDENT I CHICAGO, Dec. 21. Judge , Keneaaw M. Landis toda refused to sentence six men charged with stealing COO sacks of sugar from trains In interstate commerce, after af-ter learning that President Wilson Wil-son had last week granted a pardon par-don to James J. Dorsey, of Gilbert HI , known as the "millionaire cattle cat-tle king " Dorsey was sentenced to eight, years in Leavenworth prison by Judge Jandls after conviction of selling several thousand head of tubercular cattle throughout the west under false papers, representing repre-senting them as government tested test-ed ami healthy. He began serving serv-ing his sentence June 4, 1910. I-a9t July President Wilson cut the sentence to four years. At that time Judge Iindls, In open court, declared he could not "understand "un-derstand the working! Of the president's pres-ident's mind. "I can't sentence these men with the Dorsey thing fresh in m-j mind " Judu't Landis declared in court today. "Dorsey's ncuv -(ties ran Into the thousands of dollars worth f cerchondlse, I will continue this case indefinitely." |