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Show WOMAN AND MAN SENT TO PRISON Cora Ellis Receives One Year and W. L. Scath is Given Seven Years Judge Says He Aims to Ereak Up an Unholy Alliance Woman Cries. W. T. Seath appeared before Judge Howell this morning anil staled that he wonlf plead guilty t the charge of grand larceny, whereupon tho court rente need him to serve noven years Jn I lie state penitentiary. In passing sentence upon Cora Kills, Seath s accomplice in the crime, the court said: "I do not care to send you in prison, tmt I have no discretion in the matter. mat-ter. Yon have pleaded guilty to tho commission of a cilme that I:; punishable punish-able hy imprisonment. In the state penitentiary, and there is not h Ins left for me to do font to send you there. It seems to me that you must he ' punlslicd In pin;in way, more to hreak I iii an unholy alliance with this man than for anything else, and for that purpose I will sentence you to serve, one year in the state prison, this he-ins he-ins the minimum sentence for the offense to which you have pleaded guilty." Mrs. I.llis crk-d nil the lime she wan in court, and she seemed to lament more over the long sentence given Sealh than over her own punish pun-ish men L Roth Seath and Mrs. Kills will he taken to the state penitentiary this afternoon. |
