Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-24
EARL STAND:
ARD RECEIVES
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Earl Standard, formerly of North
ed looter of the funds of the Amer
lean National bank of Pomona to
the extent of $4,000 was sentenc-
ed Saturday by Judge Wellborn of
the United States district court to
imprisonment on McNeil's Island to
ten years on each of the six counts
of the indictment alleging embez-
Element, abstracting, misapplying
the funds of the institution and
making false entries on the books.
However, as the sentences run con-
currently, it means that Standard,
who is but 23 years of age, will
serve but ten years, and will be able
to reduce this term by good con-
duct.
The only defense put forward in
behalf Of Standard, after he. had
pleaded guilty to the indictment,
was furnished by the testimony of
business men of Pomona, but in the
list there was none Of the stock
holders or officers of the American
National bank.
In presenting the interests of the
defendant, Attorney Tom l.. John
son asked the mercy of the court,
on the ground that Standard is but
a child; that none of the money was
spent in riotous living, and that he
has wife and parents who need
his care and protection. johnson al
SO referred to the fact that the 81
500 acres of land in Inyo and Kern
counties purchased with the money
stolen from the bank has been turn
ed over to the looted institution.
When Standard was asked if he
had anything to say why the SEN
tence of the court should not be
imposed upon him, he stated that
he had been led into wrong-doing
by seeing others engaged in get
rich-quick enterprises and making a
success of it. He took the first
money from the bank, he said, and
losing that, took other amounts to
try to square accounts for previous
steals. He implored the mercy of
the court for the sake of his parents
and his wife.
The display of contribution on
the part of the defendant aroused
Assistant United States District At
torney Regain, who declared, when
asked by the court what he had to
say in the matter, that if Standard
was sincere in his statements to
Judge Weilborn, it was the first
time in the entire history of the
case that he had been so. Regain
scored Standard numerically both
on account of the seeming indiffer-
ence with which he had treated his
crime, but also by reason of the al
legations made by the boy when ar
rested, that others interested in the
bank were concerned with him in
the ENLIGHTENMENT, statement that
he could not and had never attempt
ed to prove.
Regan explained at length how
Standard had manipulated the
books of the American National
bank, and said that but for the
fact, that the steal was accidentally
discovered last winter, the looting
would still be going on. He asked
that the defendant be given such a
sentence that would measure up to
the magnitude of the offense, and
for the future protection Of people
who trusted their funds to the care
of our banks. The district attor-
ney stated that as a result of his
examination he had found nobody
in the steal except Stand
ard and his wife, the latter often
funds from Pomona to the
Farmers and Merchants bank of
this city, in furtherance of her hus-
bands schemes to defraud.
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