The Mena weekly star., 1913-10-30
WHITE SLAYER
 GETS FIVE YEARS
J. R. Holland, Who Posed as a Rich Man and MiSled Young Woman, Whom He Later Married, Is
 Scored by Prosecutor.

J. R. Holland was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary by a jury in the Circuit court Tuesday night, on the charge of pandering, .or white slavery.
 Two days previous to Hollands arrest he was married in Mena to Miss Norma Cantrell, who was the states leading witness in the prosecution. Mrs. Cantrell-Holland and her mother are in attendance at the trial.
 Holland this would-be million aire from Virginia, is the most gi- gantic fraud that ever hit Polk county" said Prosecutor Abe Col iIus in his address to the jury Tues day afternoon. "He comes to Men1, buys hotels and other property, and issues worthless checks in pay neut. Ar. Collins held up to ridicule Hollands pretended picture shows and numerous autos, and said that he made the misrepre- senlations in order to secure con trol of Norma Cantrell. If you would cut this monsters heart into bits and toast 1t over coals of fire, 1t would not be sufficient punish ment for him." said the prosecuting attorney.
 k. J. Lundy, counsel for the de- fense, made an able fight for his client, but the evidence was too strongly in favor of the state.
 Holland was not placed on the stand, but his smiling, half-sneering and debonair manner while his wife was testifying had it's effect on the jury. Mrs. Holland made a good witness, and her answers were given in a straightforward manner In her testimony, Mrs. Holland stated that she borrowed money from her brother to come to Siloam Springs, where she was to complete arrangements for her position as piano player in one of Hollands picture shows, and that he gave her check to repay the loan, and it proved worthless. She stated tha she was at the time engaged to an other man. When Holland left her at the Antlers hotel she was with out funds.
 l On crOsS-eXaminatiOn by the de- fense, il was brought out that Mrs. Holland was married when she was fifteen. and that she had obtained a divorce from her first husband; that she earned her living as pianist and had worked in Chicago, Mil waukee. Joplin and other points. She emphaticalIy denied that she had married the prisoner because she thought him wealthy. She gave her age as twenty-three years. Hol- land gave her a watch, she said, with which to pay her board here, but her mother sent her a ticket that enabled her to return home.
 Rev. Francis N. Brewer testified that he had married the couple on Saturday night, and that he had seen Mrs Holland on the following Monday: that he knew of the de- fendants drunkenness on that day, and in the anxiety of the girls vel fare he asked her if Holland abused her when in that condition, to which she replied that even when drunk he was the soul of kindness.
 County Clerk Parker said that the check given him in payment for the license was worthless.
 William Bateman testified that the witness stayed at his hotel for several days after the prisoners arrest, and that while there said the defendant had proposed mar riage while at Siloam Springs and that she had been advised to marry him.
 It is believed that this is the first conviction in the state under the statute against "pandernig" as passed by the last legislature.
 On the first ballot one member of the jury voted for acquittal; on the second the vote stood from two to ten years. II was finally compro- missed by sentencing the defendant to Rva x-aorc af hard IahOr