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Show SIXTY DAYS FOR YOUNG HERBERT O, J. Van Herbert appeared before Judge Murphy this morning and stated stat-ed that ho should like to plead guilty i to he charge of petit larceny which was Hied against him some tlmo agw. The plea was accepted by the court, under the recommendation of County Coun-ty Attorney David Jensen, and the defendant was sentenced to pay a fino of $C0, or servo sixty days In the county Jail. The charge against Van Herbert, originally, was embezzlement. It being alleged that he sold a diamond rlns which had been intrusted to his care by o friend. The testimony In th? case proved that the ring was worth only $45 which reduced the gravity of the offense from felony to that of a misdemeanor, otherwise he would j hove been sent to tho penitentiary for the crime. In passing sentence this morning Judge Murphy stated that he wna pleased that the value of the rln1 had been proved to be such as to warrant war-rant the changing of the crime from a felony to a misdemeanor, whleh would tiao the young man from the penitentiary. "You are a young man." said the judge, "Just starting out Iu life. You feeein to have been reasonably well reared, having been given au education educa-tion that will enable you, if you do right, to become a useful man iu the community, and it Is too bad for you to get started out wroug. I bopo your escape fiom the penitentiary will cau.-e you Vj pause and consider more wlsfly, the path you should pursue. |