Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 1 | Socialist Convicted on Espionage Charge

mm uu SOCIALIST CONVICTED I v ON ESPIONAGE CHARGE H MINNEAPOLIS, April 13. Jacob V Bentall, former socialist candidate HI fr Governor of Minnesota, was again Mmi found guilty of a charge of violating M thc espionage act, by a jury In the I Mm - United States district court. Sentence HH : 13 to bo pronounced later and Bentall ' H J was released on $10,000 ball. I Hr p Jt was charged Bontall made a W'l I i, speech at Hutchinson, Minn., in 1917, 'If i "attempting to incite drafted and on- H L listed men to Insubordination." lie was H convicted in April, 1918. and sentenced H I to -five years in federal prison. This i I conviction, however, was reversed b?. HF I tbo "United. Stat"a circuit court of ap- i peas, and a rotrlal ordered.