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Show ' GUILTY Former PittsburgBanker Sentenced to 15 Years Imprisonment Pittsburg. Jan. 15. J. B. Rinehart. former cashier and vice-president of the Farmers' and Drovers' National I Bank of Waynesburg. Penna., which. Institution fftllprl twn vears aso for S2.-I 000.000, was found guilty at noon today of wrecking the bank and was immediately imme-diately sentenced to serve fifteen years in the penitentiary by United States Judge James S Young. The jury found Rinehart guilty of all the eleven counts charging him with making false report to the comptroller comp-troller of tho currency, and upon all of the nineteen counts charging him ! with making false entries, and with abstraction in transactions connected with the Greene county political campaign cam-paign of 1905. Rinehart was not present when the verdict was read, but eutered a few minutes later. Judge Young then caused a sensation among all concerned concern-ed by Immediately calling Rinehart before him and imposing sentence. Tears trickled down tho cheeks of the dazed banker, and . among the largest audience ever seen In the United Unit-ed States court here, there was a death-like silence. Later the jurors conferred with the United States district dis-trict attornev concerning an alleged attempt to bribe one of their number. |