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Show FORMER PRISON HEADJS GUILTY JURY DELIBERATES SIXTEEN HOURS AND BRINGS IN VERDICT OF GUILTY A. E. Sartain and L. Riehl Are Convicted of Accepting Bribes From Rich Prisoners Atlanta, Ga. After being out sixteen six-teen hours in United States court here A. E. Sartain and Lawrence Riehl were convicted by a jury on a charge of conspiracy to accept bribes. L. J. Fletcher was acquitted. The three defendants were charged with conspiracy to receive bribes from wealthy inmates of the Atlanta Atlan-ta federal penitentiary, where A. E. Sartain was warden and L. F. Fletcher Flet-cher was deputy warden. Riehl's home is in Colmbus, Ohio. James N. Linton of Columbus, attorney for Riehl, filed a motion for a new trial and Judge Ervln announced announ-ced that he would defer passing sentence sen-tence until counsel might be heard. The case was given to the jury at 6 o'clock Thursday, but actual consideration con-sideration of the case was not begun until one hour later, after the jurors went to dinner. At 1 o'clock Friday morning the jurors retired to a hotel resuming their deliberation at 8 a. m. After attorneys for Sartain and Riehl had announced that they would seek a new trial. A. E. Sartain was sentenced by Judge Ervin to serve one year and six months in the Atlanta At-lanta penitentiary. Riehl was sentenced to serve one year and one day. The court announced announ-ced that lie was taking into consideration consid-eration the fact that Riehl was not an officer of the government. The CQurt received the formal announcement of a motion for a new trial and fixed bail at ?5000 for each pending action on the application for new trial. |