The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

CAPT. A. A. SMITH
GOES TO PRISON
Pleads Guilty to Taking Money
Out of Mails.
WIFE WEEPS IN DEEP SORROW
SENTENCE rs TWO YEARS AND
SIX MONTHS.
WIFE WEEPS IN DEEP SORROW

Standing trembling and with down.
cast eyes, while his wife burst into hys-
terieai weeping Captain Andrew A.
Smith, formerly OF the national guard
of Utah. was sentenced yesterday TO
TWO years and six months in the state
Tenitentiary- He is now an inmate of
that Institution.
Yesterday was arraignment day I'm
tie United States court, and a number
of men indicted by the recent grand
jury for violations OF federal laws
stood before the bar of the court and
entered pleas to the accusations against
them. All except one of the accused
acknowledged that the charges against
item were true, and either in person or
through their attorneys begged Judge
MARSHALL TO deal leniently with them.
At the head of the small procession
of self confessed culprits that filed into
the enclosure before the judicial bench
was CAPTAIN Smith, who at the time
&C his arrest on Sept. %, 1904 for steal
ing money from a letter while at work
as a clerk in the salt Lake pOstoffiee.
was captain of the signal corpe, y. G.
L.. At that time he had but recently
returned from the national guard en-
campment at Camp Black Hawk near
Provo, where the signal corps had elic-
tied praise from Captain George H.
JamersOn of the United States army,
who was in command Of the regulars
that participated in the encampment,
Enters Plea of Guilty.
Captain Smith, when called upon ito
plead TO the Indictment charging him
with apprOpriating a letter addressed
20 ''Drs. Shores q Shores" opening il
and taking So therefrom, answered
guilty" in a voice that was so inaudi-
bic that he was required TO repeat il
more distinctly. He stood trembling
and downcast during the bTief time that
elapsed before his punishment was
1heted out 10 him. His attorney made
plea for a light sentence, saying that
lie was a young man of good education,
had always borne an excellent repu-
tatiOn. that this was his first offense
and that he was not physically able to
endure heavy or long continued pun
ishment. Judge Marshall found no
merit IN the plea of the attorney, say
ing that if he were we'll educated and
accustomed TO assOciating with Gull
tured and intelligent people he GER
tainiy knew better than to open a let
ter and take the money it contained
he sentenced Captain Smith TO serve
TWO years and six months in the Utah
renitentiary.
As the sentence Of the court was
pronounced the wife OF the prisoner.
who sat near him. uttered a piercing
wall and became hystericaI. The bail
ifs reached her in time TO prevent her
falling TO the floor. and they led her
from the court room. Later she re-
covered sufficiently TO be permitted TO
bid him a fearful and affectionate
goodbye as he was led away
After the adjournment of the court
the prisoner was taken to the peni-
Tertiary by Deputy Marshal L. II.
Smyth and delivered To the warden.
who received him and had him assigned
TO cell after going through the
dressing in and other preliminaries.
One Year For Arthur Tew.
Arthur Tew, boy indicted 80. taking
checks for small amounts from letters
addressed TO the Utah Stove & Hard
ware company on June II. 1904. pleaded
guilty and was given \ sentence OF one
year in the county Jail and to pay a
me OF $50 and costs of prosecution He
claimed he obtained the letters out Of
broken letter box. One of the checks
was for s. and the other for S525. He
attempted to get them cashed. but
failed and was arrested
y. Mccarthy acknowledged himself
guilty of having i'm his possession and
passing counterfeit money. and was
sentenced 10 eleven months I'm the
county Jail AT hard labor and to paw a
fine OF so and costs
Andrew Christensen, indicted for
counterfeiting, entered a plea OF not
guilty, and his trial was set for next
Wednesday
John a. Gardner who was convicted
I'm the court of selling liquor to
Ungaska, a Ute Indian. was given a
sentence OF ten months in the county
jail and fined Sl00 and costs.