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Show UTAH PRISON j AID SENTENCED . BAXfT LAKE. May 3. Pleading! guilty to a misdemeanor charge of I embezzling $30 of the state funds. Walter W Emery, former clerk at the T'tnh state prison, was sentenced to ; ix months In the county Jail by the I city Judge today. Emery Is said to have made restitution of about $2,000 alleged shortage In his accounts, ac- 1 cording to tho report of the state I auditor. Tho specific charge of embezzling em-bezzling $30 was lodged, It was sui 1. because due to the nature of the bookkeeping which was in vogue at the prison It would have been difficult diffi-cult to have obtained a conviction on the shortage in general. oo |