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Show MIAN SENATOR FACES PRISON TERM NEWBERRY CONVICTED OF CR1M-INA:. CR1M-INA:. CONSPIRACY IN STATE ELECTIONS. I Sentenced to Two Years' Imprisonment Imprison-ment and Fined $10,000, Sixteen Co-defendants Also Being Found Guilty. Appeal to be Taken. Grand liapids, Mich. Truman II. Nert berry, junior L'niied Slates sen- ii'or fr Michigan, was convicted by a Jury, on March 2(1, id' having con- i spired criminally in 1 ! 1 1 S to violate the eleeiion laws. He was sentenced I by Judge I'larciice V. Sessions to two years' iiuprisonmeiii and fined 1U,IHMI, released on bond pending an appeal, and al once issued a state ment declaring his intention to relain his scat in ihe senate unless that body decides olherwise or the supreme court upholds his conviction. Sharing the fate of the senator were his bn.ilier, John S. Newberry, and fifteen campaign managers, including Frederick Cody, New York, and Paul II. Kiiif, Iielruil. 1 '.ol Ii these men received re-ceived ihe limit sentence with their chief. Charles A. Floyd, Detroit, was also sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, peni-tentiary, but be was fined only half as much as Newberry. The brother was lined . 10,(100 and was one of the four who were not sentenced to Leavenworth. The lightest sentence went to George S. I.add of Sturbridge, Mass.. and he was fined $1000. Ninety days were granted the attorneys attor-neys for the convicted men in which to perfect an appeal. I'rtinian II. Newebrry was elected l'niied Stales senator from Michigan by a majority of 7507 votes over Henry Hen-ry Ford according to the official report re-port of the slate canvnssing board. The figures announced were: Newberry, New-berry, 220.0r4; Ford, 212.487, one of the closest races ever recorded in a Michigan senatorial election. First formal charges of Irregularities in the 1118 campaign came January 6, 1919, when Henry Ford filed with the senate sen-ate an appeal for a recount. He alleged al-leged improper use of mails by the Newberry campaign managers, intimidating intim-idating of voters, improper rejection of ballots, and charged that at least 10.0CK1 ballots were unlawfully counted count-ed for Newberry. He charged many election boards included intense partisans par-tisans of Newberry. Clmrges of "fraud and corruption" also were made by Lieutenant Governor L. D. Dickinson, and it was on these charges to the federal department of justice that the grand jury inquiry ivns ordered. The grand jury returned the indictments indict-ments naming Senator Newberry and 194 others, including virtually every man connected with the campaign. |