The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-03-02
REV. WARE IS SENTENCED
ONE YEAR MAIL AND 81 100000
FINE is IMPOSED
THE SENTENCE a HEAVY ONE
Ware Will Appeal the Case to the
Supreme Court of Nebraska
Gives a Big Cash Bond

Convicted Of conspiracy TO defraud
the government by means of ficti.
tious homestead enteries, the Rev.
George G. Ware, cattle baron, CAPT
talist and churchman, rector of the
Episcopal parishes at Deadwood and
Lead, S. D., and president of the U.
B. l. Land and Cattle company in
Hooker county, Neb., has missed
penitentiary sentence by q single
day. If his sentense had been wear
aud day instead of imprisonment
for twelve months as 1T was, he
won d have been committed to Lin.
coin. AS it is, u fine Of 81 900 is
imposed upon him In addition to the
sentence of twelve months in the
Dong'as county jail.
This sentense is heavier than any
hitherto pronounced in land fraud
case. Senator Mitchell OF Oregon
got six months in Jail.
Before sentence was passed by
Judge Munger, he made o strong
plea for leniency, reiterating that
he was innocent of the offense OF
which.he had been convicted and
declaring he had been wrongfully
and unfairly tried. He said in part:
II desire to state that | have not
received, as your honor would have
had lie receive, fair and impartial
trial. There have been influences
and forces at work OF which YOU
know not-forces which have had
for their object the oppression OF
truth and the magnifying of faults.
| bow myself submissively to
any sentence which you, out of the
largeness of your heart, and in the
due discharge of your duty, feel
that you must impose upon me-"
When Attorney Frawley, of Dead
wood, was making his plea for len.
iency Mrs. Ware found it impossible
to bear up, and suddenly began to
sob.
Mr.Frawley called Judge Munger's
attention to some of the persons
who had signed a petition asking
leniency for Ware. About thous.
and persons had signed the petition.
While the signers of the petition
were being read Mrs. Ware fell to
sobbing and could not restrain her
teers when her husband was deliver
ing the most eloquent passage of
his plea. He was saying:
II am stripped bare OF everything
That a man holds dear. am be-
reft of my life's work and Of my
chosen profession; am sent out Of
the world saying to myself: Hence
forth you can never minister to
those who know you and believe in
you and love you; and this is be-
cause you have been betrayed by
Frank Lambert and by others who
have placed you in the position
where you stand today. ="
Before sentence was passed,
Special District Attorney Rush
stated that the sentence and the
punishment it inficts is that in
which society is most concerned, to
the end, that the offender against
the law may be justly punished, and
that such punishment shall deter
others from like offense. In this
case, the crime was conspiracy to
defraud the government out of the
title, possession and use of thou.
sands OF acres Of public land, involv-
ing the false swearing of the entry
man to the homestead affidavit, and
the final proof, with that of two
W esses, and the sub.
orning of these false oaths by the
defendant-in all eight direct Of
fences against the laws Of the United
States in each homestead entry
charged in the MISUNDERSTANDING
in the fifteen counts upon which the
defendant was found guilty 1920
direct otfenses against the laws Of
the United States; that conspiracy
to defraud under such circums tances
requires severe punishment and
imprisonment under the law.
Mr.. Wares attorneys will appeal
the case to the Supreme court.