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Show HZEIS CONPNED He Is to Serve Ten Days in Island Penitentiary New Vcrk, July 7. Arthur P. Helnze, sentenced to serve ten days : on Rlackwell's Island for obstructing the administration of Justice In th-case th-case of the United Copper company proceedings, 1m rather feerely handled hand-led In the decision of tne circuit court of appeals affirming his conviction. The decision, which was announced on Tuesday, has Ju6t been made public. pub-lic. It says: j "The testimony, mt objected to and ! not contradicted, shows beyond the ' slightest doubt that the defendant j ent Tracy Hucklngham (wanted as a ; witness before the federal grand Jury) : out of the country and furnished him with money to go out and stay out; and in the moat flagrant manner attempted at-tempted to obstruct and Impede, and had obstructed and impeded, the administration ad-ministration of justice of the circuit . court of the United States. The sen- : fence that the trial court saw fit to ImpobC does not Indicate tho serioua nature of the offense." ' Counsel for Helnze will apply within with-in a few days for a stay of the issuance is-suance of the mandate of the circuit court pending appeal to the United States supreme court. The mandate will be filed wlthlrV len days after the filing of the court's decision and, unless a stay shall have been granted grant-ed by that time. Helnze will have to begin to serve his prison sentence. |