Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-01
SLA|D GIVEN
TIRE: YEARS.
Well Known Postotfice Emplolyee.
Now on His Way to Leav- /.
enWorth Prison.
SENTENCE OVERCoMEs WIFE.
convicted Man Permitted to Return
81 Home and Take Farewell Prior 4
To Starting for Kansas.

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6. G.. Slade convicted of8robbing the
United States malls in the Salt Lake
+ postoffice, is now on his way to the
federal prison at Fort. LeavenWorth,
KANSAS, having been sentenced to serve
three years there by Judge Marshall
in the United States district court to-
day. 4
G.. c. Shade, who was ind tcted by the
grand Jury, pleaded guilty to The u Of I
Tense and was sentenced to three years ~
4 on the first, fourth and fifth counts
and I'd; SIX months on the seventh.
eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twel
and thirteenth counts, the sentences TO
be concurrent. This means that they
will all run out together, and the prls-,
+ oner will therefore serve. but three
years in the prison at Fort Lea IN :,
worth. AS this sentence may be reF
duced several months by good behavior t'}t
it#is considered by everyone to be q re-
5mnrkably light sentence. &.
Shade was driven to the federal btlild-;
ing this morning III company with ms
Wife and A j. Davis arld wifi ~ s ~
of slade' IS was also of the party llleS
reached the court room q little betofe3. y
condition, like a man who finds himself
IN an linaccountab BILE position. ~ 81 3
conntenallce showed every sign Of N en-
tai anguish and he behaved Ike one
I who felt his humiliation most keenly.
AS he passed into the courtroom ne
silently glasped the hand of an Old
friend, who afterwards said that ms
hand shook like q leaf, while MS lps
5quivered and for a moment he thought
down. Il
AXES sENTDNC CALMLY.
Shade recovered his self-possession
sufficiently to pass into the court room
and up To the bar. Immediately on the
opening Of court, the United states dis,
trict att nrney stated that he had o pl1s-
onsrl6for sentence who had pleaded
guilty. Frank b. Stephens, attorney
plea for lenisncy, at tel, which Judge
|hlarsilall stated that siade had been a
trusted etiiploye 1.-THE office in an
: official position that involved much re-
sponsbility. This fact served to mag i
nify the heino usnes Of the crime, y g
Mas tliall sen ene s.tl! !ls stsl ted abe
= tEIea did not show t he least change OF
couns enance when tle sent ence5 vas
pronounced, but acted Ikea man who
had made up;lhis mind for. the worst.
/ and hisSonty thought was to meet it
land get i IL over with. ,2Yf
Mrs. Slade took { much harder ap
parRntly than her husband. She was
taken into the marshal office ina state
: 81 partial collapse. After a stay of Is
mnutes there. during which everything
: that could be done was done to- allevi-t
ate hels she was driven home TO the
: fesidence5 in company with MI and
= Mrs. Da Wis.
Slade was turned over to the care Of
United States Deputy Marshal FL 2 !.
VI yton, under whose surveillance he
WAS ia ken to his home to prepare, for
: Ills Journey to- I.esly snwortfl at 1880
this afternoon, at which time he was
taken charge of by Ulltsd States Mar
shale Isucian Smyth, who will accom-
pany him to the prison designated as
his home for the next two or three.
Sears. 35s.l7tIi t5.3 'y8tsll
CROWD PRESENT. Ss s
The case has attracted great deal
OF interest because Of the prominence
of Slades in the social lie of Salt Lake
for q number of years past. There
was, consequently, a good sized crowd
lat court this morning to hear the sem
tence pronounced and ito taks. n last
Hook at the prisoner.
II Prison life to Yiost people is associat-
{eu W. $AdiuSlA -, lack OF al comforts,
Eand constant Intercourse with the vul-
&gar9and unref ned. tits said that this
IFS not lttert,ly true Of the prison to.
(which slaGe will go, and to which many
other talented and educated men have
gone. He may have to work there,
HUT he will be able to associate with
mel1 who are far above the ordinary
criminal in intelligence. Compared
with the ordinary Jail the I4eavenworth
prison IS SO superior that 1t has been
N1ubbed by one Salt Lake citizen as
the gentleman's club