New Britain herald., 1915-09-29
ROGER GETS FIVE
 YEARS IN PRISON
Former Canaan Bank Cashier Ad-
 &@ &-~I5g mits Elnbezzlelnent Charge :

New Haven, Sept. 29.-George Roger, until recently cashier of the Canaan National bank, was sentenced to five years at the Atlanta prison by Judge E. S. Thomas in the United States district court today, after 8 plea of guilty to the charge of em- bezzlement had been entered, Rogers had nothing to say when arraigned. District Attorney Spellacy said to the court that Roger had worked for a small salary and had a wife and six children. The amount of the em- bezzlement was about $5, 500 and the money had been taken in driblets to pay living expenses. The court inn posed the five year sentence, which is the minimum under the law as it ap- piled to this case.
 wilbur H. Webb, of Hartford, who wrote letters to a man named Bragg in Windsor threatening to expose alleged illegal practices but offering not to do SO if he received $10O was having been already confined for eight weeks.
 Canvasser Sent to Jail.
 Joseph w. Ryan of New London, who sent a number of fictitious or- ders to a nursery concern for which he was canvassing and received part of the commissions on the order was sentenced to six months in Hartford jail. He told the court that he met another canvasser who made out the orders and he forwarded them.
 Wong Gong, of Hartford, describ- ed as "bad man" was sent to At lanta for two years and fined $1OO on another count under the Harrison An ti-Narcotic law. MT. Spellacy said that the Chinaman not only had sold his own people but had been SUD- plying others. Judge Thomas recog- nized the prisoner as a witness in a recent case, and remarked that evil dently he had not learned a lesson from that case" Donk Kee, charged with having a drug in his possession was fined $50 without costs on each of two counts. Charlie Kee of New months for violation of the narcotic drug law ;... 7.
 Case to Washington.
 Tn case of the Arena Centerfreze company, which was before the grand jury yesterday, it is understood, that the matter of a settlemen will go to Washington. This case, it is under stood, remains a civil and not crim- inal one. The charge is that a rep- resentative of the company brought four hockey players here from Can ada under the alleged promise that they would be used on an ice hockey team which was to be promoted by the company at it's ice rink The four men came, and did not get posi- tions, and were finally not needed as hockey players. It is said that the men were stranded here, unable to pay their board, and the company, or its representative, refused to pay their carfare home. The men sought lawyer to see if they could get financial assistance through legal action but as nothing could be done the attorney called the case to the attention of Secretary of Labor Will son who sent an immigration inspec- tor here. Because the men were likely to become a charge they were deported in May having been here in almost destitute circumstances from February The government brought civil suit and it is said that an offer of settlement was made The case from the aspect of the alien con- l tract labor law was brought to the attention of the grand jury yesterday.