Show FOR YEARS I 1 ex treasurer bardsley Birds lcy of or philadelphia I 1 sentenced IT DOUBTLESS SKIM LIFE vol DIV I 1 la in bt be is tided a sam equal is 1 the lh amount he D confessed is din live Ali appropriated 1 july 2 ex city treasurer john barkeley Bard Bar Bley deley was ren pen fenced this morning morain 9 by judge wilton wilson to fifteen years solitary confinement in the eastern penitentiary and to pay y a fine equal to the bum sum to which 1 fl h be he pleaded guilty the tact fact that baddeley Bar deley waa was to be sentenced today to day was not generally I 1 known and the there ro w were ere not more than fitly fifty people in the tha coart court room the district atto attorney rne y spoke briell briefly in ta the h e e course 0 r s a 0 of I 1 bia his remarks he denied benl ed Bard a r d ete eleya y s co contention mention made in hia his abatement sat ement to the court a week ago thattie that the e ex x treasurer bad had not miso ap appropriated pp rop rioted a dollar graham showed 0 w ed by Bar Bard Bleys deleys sworn statement that be he mint must at least have mis appropriated as that amount was required to be made good goodby by the sureties oure ties although be he was not able as yet elate state where tha the money had bad gone to graham laid said Bard Bards Bleys leya embezzlement would amount to between four and five hundred thousand dollars alexander counsel for or barbaley Bar daley deley reviewed the statements made by bis his client and appealed to the court lor for mercy on the ground of 0 Bar deleys plea of guilty guilt to and ad hi bis a p past as t a services to tha the city alexander said sad that baddeley Bar daley deley I 1 did not get a dollar odthe of the money be he pot into the keystone key bank and within six mouth months it woold would be shown who did Ale alexander iander vehemently declared that his client had not stolen a dollar but that he be bad had only pleaded guilty to the statutory offence offense of loaning I 1 n g and peculating speculating with and receiving i ng interest on public funds never with bis him consent bald said A lexander alexander should bardsley appear before the investigation vesti gation committee of the councils I 1 to testify but if at any time the district dietrict attorney desired any information or assistance his client was willing to aid him while his bid counsel bad been speaking ba bardsley Bard adeley eat sat with bowed head nervously tracing imaginary lines with the back of a pen upon a table before him with the exception of his brother ln in 1 0 lannot one of the hundreds of friends that bardsley had a year ago were present when he ile arose to receive the sentence E of the court judge J williams save severe to words caused baddeley Bar daley deley the mott moat palpable disteso di stegg stess aa As the judge said ho he could find no palliation for Bar Bard deleys malfeasance and that bis bid oance was more open to censure from hia his abuse of official position the prisoner lioner alfoot collated coll colla aped pred and seemed about to sink to the floor from bia bid chair nevertheless before judge wilson bad had concluded and ordered him to arise to receive the sentence Bar bardsley daley had completely ro r gained bis his composure and received the words that sent him to prison for fifteen I 1 years with utter absence of any ny emotion emoi the amount of the file fin fine w wilt ill not be determined antil until after the examination of the accounts is finished Bar bardsley deley will sill probably be taken to the penitentiary to morion judge wilson waa was been seen after passing sentence on bardsley relative to the amount of the fine fin and said it would be about |