The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-02
THREE YEARS FOR
CHARLES c. SLAOE
Former Trusted POstOfiice En-
ploye Pleads Guilty to
Indictments.
CHARGED WITH STEALING
MONEY FROM THE MAILS
Wife Faints in Court When
Judge Marshall Passes
Sentence.

c. C. Sladc, for tho past twenty
eight years trusted cmploye of the
salt Lake City postoffice. was sen
fenced on Saturday morning by Judge
Marshall of tho United States district
court to serve three years in the gov
ernment prison at LcaVcnworth, Kan,
after having been indicted by the grand
jury for opening the United States
mails and extracting money from them.
The prisoner was sentenced on nine
Of the thirteou counts on which he was
indicted, tho sentence to run concur
rent, making the time he is to serve
less than thrcc years, if he takes ad-
vantage of the prison regulations, which
Will reduce his sentence five days each
month during the first year for good
behavior and six days each of the fol
lowing months of The next two years.
shortly before the court opened on
Saturday morning Mr.. Slade was driven
To tho Federal building in company
with his wife, his wife's sister and
a. j. Davis and wife. When the pris-
oner reached the court room he pre-
seuted the appearance of deep humlh,
alton. while his countenance showed
ovcrv sign Of ono who was bravcly try
ing TO suppress his emotion. Through
out the trying ordeal he did everything
in his power to comfort his wife, who
was rapidly becoming hysterical while
she waited for the court TO open.
Mrs. Slade Faints,
AS soon as the case opened, ihc at
torney for the government addressed
the court, stating that the prisoner had
pleaded guilty and was ready for sen
tence 10 be passed. The prisoner at
this point seemed calm and collected
with steady voice. Attorney Frank
B. stephens, for the accused, then arose
and made a short plea, III which nc
asked the leDicncy of the court, basing
his request on the long service of the
accused and the fact that this was tho
only stain on an otherwise clear char
acter.
Judge Marshall Is summing up Of the
ease was brief and to the point. lie
standpoint that tho prisoner had been
n trusted employee of the postoffice,
holding an official position OF large
RESPONSE ibility to the community, which
fact only served to magnify the hei-
nousness of the crime. When Judge
Marshall pronounced the sentence the
prisoner seemed TO be moro affected by
the suffering OF his wife than by the
thought that be was about to start
on the journey TO the prison. He did
what he could to revive Mrs. Slade,
who tainted and had to be carried to
tho marshal e office, whore she revived
later on and was driven home in COM
pany with her sister and Mr. and Mrs
Davis.
On Way to Prison.
United States Deputy Marshal II. P
Myton later on took the prisoner to
the latter IS residence, where he made
for the journey to Leav-
cuworth. AT 1880 o'clock he was
taken to the train, accompanied by
United States Marshal Lucian Smyth,
Mrs. Slade, Lillian Slade. Mrs, A. j,
Davis and A. j. Davis, all Of whom
went with the prisoner as far as Og-
den for the last farewell.
The arrest of G. c.. Slade took place
in January, when the secret service of
ficials were informed regarding a great
deal of valuable mail matter that
turned up missing in the Salt Lake
postoffice. After arriving in the city
they set about to find the offender |
and when Slade was arrested as the
guilty party his friends throughout the
city were dumfounded. During the en-
tire ordeal his wife has acted in very
manner, and only at the
last moment broke down, when con.
froDted with the separation of the next
three years.