The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-31
SPEAR MAKES BOND
 AND RETURNS HOME
'5EVkN-YEAR SENTENCE FOR HOf SPRINGS MAN AND FIVE YEARS
 FOR JACK PORTER.
Appeal Will Be Taken to the United States Court of Appeals, Which May Require a Year to Determine Finally the Issue.

 chud. father, sister. and friends re- turned to Hot Springs last night. fol- lowing his formal sentence yester1ay ill federal court, and after which he made bond in the sum of 1000 EenC- ing d final disposal of the cases against him in the United States court of appeals at St Louis.
 Yesterday morning in Little Roc1 Judge Trebor fixed the punishment against Spear at seven years, and against Jack Porter at five years. In addition Spear was fined $500.
 When he arrived in the city last night there were number of friends at the depot to meet him. lie seemed in splendid spirits, considering the circumstances. After discussing the case briefly at the station platform he hurried along home with his family.
 It was stated yesterday by Attorney Harry II. Myers that the appeal tiled in behalf of Spear in the higher court would not be decided probably within a year Attorney Myers felt most hopeful of a reversal of the decision of the jury in the federal court at Little Rock
 No bond has been made in the Por- ter case, but the court fixed that bond at $l0,O0O, and it Is believe, that it will be made also.
 The Little Rock Democrat contains the following report of the morning proceedings in federal court: Preliminary to announcing the sentence. Judge Trieber made bura. ing statements of the conditions ex- isting at Hot Springs as result of the activities Of gamblers, swndlers and crooks, who, he declared, seemed 10 look upon Spear as the king.Dee. He asserted that the evidence showed that Spear was a clearing house and fence for a band that had infested Hot Springs for years
 The court was shocked to hear | one witness testify on the stand tha he had been running a gambling house for another person and that word was passed around that the laws of Arkansas were to be suspended and that everything would he wide open
 Judge Trieber declared that the evidence tended to show that the only men who could walk the streets Of Hot Springs With their heads erect were the men engaged in crime and m violating the laws.
 "I know there are good people in Hot Spriags-as good as there are anywhere in the country but there are also bad ones said the court.
 "The verdict of the jury. he cor. tinued, would tend to have a clarity ing effect on Hot Springs conditions so that good men can walk the streets without having to bow their heads ia shame.
 The court was even more singing in his comments on Hot Springs con ditions in an address to the members of the jury panel, Several of the jurors had been excused from service after the close of this weeks session Of the court and Judge TrieDer's re, marks were made for the benefit ot them.
 "He declared that he could nos re- call having had a better jury panel than the one which served this week. He stated that he believed the yer diets in all instances were correct. He then compimented the jury that had returned the verdicts of guilty in the Spear and Porter cases asserting that he believed the judgment in ac. cordance with the law and the eyi- dence and that the effect would be to clear one of the finest resorts in the United States of class of crim. naIs who had infested Hot Springs and had openly and notoriously ileeced, robbed and swindled men of all classes from all parts of the United States.
 "ln concluding his remarks this morning, he recalled the numerous notorious swindling and gambling cases at Hot Springs which had re. suited in so few convictions. He mentioned the famous foot-race fake gang. recalled the fake race in which but one man was arrested and then only after diligent efforts on the part of government agents who finally had to resort 10 a ruse.
 One of the men in that case had a friend swear out a warrant for his arrest for a minor ofiense in a justice court and when the government agents attempted to take him in charge his bondsmen would not sur render him He was finally taken by a ruse, said the court.
 "The judge asserted that thousanGs of dollars had been taken rom men from all parts of the United States through employment of all kinds O. games of chance, swindling schemes and other methods, all in violation Of the law. The court declared that he could not see that violation of the law by some poor deyiT should re sult in convictions where men who steal thousands are let off without punishment
 |" The effect of this case may be that robbers and swindlers and the Iflfp usf1l hunt cptua otho, ..fao- .ho,.