The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-19
Mandate of the Supreme Court
Arrives in Topeka.
IT ORDERS HIM TO PRISON
Not Even the Customary so
Days of Grace.
He Must Serve Five Years and
Pay $1,000.

Unless subsequent arrangements are
made with Fred Robertson. United
States district attorney, George S
Badders must present himself at once
to the United States marshal to be
transported to the federal peniten-
tiary, there to serve a term of five
years on the charge of using the
mails in the furtherance of a scheme
to defraud"
The mandate of the supreme court
of the United States, ordering Badders
to the penitentiary at Leavenworth,
was received by Morton Albaugh,
clerk of the federal district court,
and placed on record this morning.
Ordinarily a person convicted of a
federal offenSe has thirty days after
the mandate is spread on record to
begin serving his sentence. But in
the Badders case the mandate says
nothing about a thirty-day extension
of liberty. The bond of $4,000 Bad
ders has on file with the clerk of the
court, says nothing about the thirty
days According to local officials of
the federal court Badders must be-
gin serving his sentence at once
The mandate fixes Badders punish
ment at five years in the penitentiary
and the payment of fine of $1,000.
Badders was convicted on seven diff
five years penal servftude on each
count and the payment of a fine OF
$1,000 on each count. The peniten-
tiary sentences will run concurrentIy,
so he will have only five years to
serve.
His Only Hope.
The only hope Badders now has is
pardon or parole from President
Wilson. He has exhausted every other
means of keeping out of the peniten-
tlary- His case was in the supreme
court of the United States, appealed
on a writ of error from the federal
district court and when, February 2,
the former, court upheld the decision
of the lower court, Badders' fate was
sealed.
That portion of the mandate which
covers Badders' sentence reads as fol-
lows:
The court orders and adjudges that
| the defendant, George S. Badders, be
imprisoned in the United States peni-
tentiary at Leavenworth for perid of
five years on each of the second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth and eleventh
counts of the indictment herein, and
| that he make his fine unto the United
States of America in the sum of 1000
/ on each of the second, third, fourth,
/ fifth, sixth, ninth and eleventh counts
/ of the indictment herein, and that said
| PERIOD of five years as to each of the
said counts shall run concurrently and
not cum ulatively, go that the imprison-
ment of George S. Badders in the fed
eral penitentiary shall be for a period
! of five years and no more, and the
| total amount on account of said fines
$1,000
Living in Wichita
Badders is now living in Wichita,
where he is the local agent for an
automobile factory. He is said to
have won the confidence and respect
/ hot
use their influence in his behalf.
Within the last two months Badders
has sent numerous letters to former
friends in Topeka asking them to
write to President Wilson urging
clemency in his case. Badders thinks,
he says he has been sufficiently pun
ished.
The Badders case created a sensa-
ton in Topeka when the Indictment
was returned April %, 1914. He had
| been reared in Topeka and had held
responsible positions. When little more
than boy he held a position in the
office of the United States district at
Colorado for several years and when
he returned he was made secretary OF
the Topeka Commercial club. He was
active in civic affairs while he held
this position and became sufficiently
well acquainted with men who were
financially responsible, to open up the
Badders Clothing company, located al
the corner of Seventh and Kansas
avenues.
His store first attra cted attention
when he put on a sale at which cloth
ing was sold for less than the ordinary
layman believed it could be boughr
for at wholesale. Later it developed
he was doing that very thing. 1t wa:
brought out in this case that he pur-
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