The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1923-11-23
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EXP -lS . . sooia ,os oss
MOTER GUILIr4 -..-
Must Serve Fourteen Years, Eight
Months at Leavsnworth and
g. Pay Fine $4,000
, [Associated Press DispatchI

Fort Worth, Texas, November %.
-Shorn OF any glory that may ac-
crue because of his spectacular oil
promotions and his colorfui adyen-
lures to the Ice gripped regions of
the pole, Or. Frederick A. Cool
PAGES a, cell in the TarTant county
jail today. HIS last oil Is promotion,
The Petroleum Producers associa-
ton, was his undoing.
Late yesterday DR.. Cook was SEN
fenced to fourteen years and eight
by Judge John M. Killits OF Toledo,
the sentence IL q fine OF $4,000 ~
The defendant was charged with
using the mails to defraud. If he ap-
peals his case he must arrange bond
of $4,000.
Cannot Provide sum u
Joseph Weldon Bailey, his senior
counsel, said he could not provide
the sum demanded, and II he cannot
DIR. Cook must stay In the county
jan until hfs appeal Is. heard. II he
does make It he must remain In jail
until the record of the trial Is per
fected and approved by Judge Kfllits.
This may require several weeks.
In jail with DR.. Cook are thirteen
of his former associates.
AS they chung to him while he was
free and carrying on his promotions,
so they must stay with him for vary
ing periods of time. ~
Among them Is S. z. J.. Cox, one
of the most colorfrH oil promoters
Texas has ever known. He must
serve eight years in the penitentiary
and pay a fine Of $4,000. 80
NATAL.
Those sentenced with Dr. Cook
and given sentences Of one year and
a day and a fine OF 81, 900 are J. s.
Rocks, C. w. Sleete, s. l.. Jess, T. O..
Turner, B. s.. Henninger, E. J..
Bowen and r. L. Maxwell. 49,
w. L. Braddish and w. P. WeIty
were sentenced to serve Z two years
and six months each In the peniten-
tiary and their fines assessed at
$1,000. Their appeal bond was fixed
at $1,000 each.
L. A. McKercher was sentenced to
six years In prison and fined $1,000
with bond at Sit, 900. The sentence Of
Fred K. Smith, treasurer of the p.
p. A., was seven years and he was
fined $4,000. His bond was set at
The sentence Of A. K. Ekman was
the same as that of Smith.
Seven of the number named in the
indictment with DR.. Cook pleaded
guilty. With two exceptions they
were fined $500 each. II. O. Stephans
was fined $1,000 and sent to Jail for
ninety days g. H. Currien did not
appear In court. The others are o. L.
Ray, G. A. Demontrond, II. E. Robin
son. Harry Bleam and ]. e. Bur-
meister.
Was seathinaly Denounced
In sentencing DR.. Cook to the PEN
itentiary Judge Killits gave one OF
the most scathing denunciations
ever heard In. court here.
Judge. Killits. said "Cook, this deal
OF yours is so damnably rotten that
1t seems to me that your. attorneys
must have been forced to hold their
handkerchiefs to their noses, to
have represented You It stinks to
high heaven, The way I feel about
you. wish were not so circum-
scribed. You should not be allowed
to run at large at ak, 800
II know you have your i'll gotten
gains put away.,tY Your counsel came
to me and asked what your bond
would be. set it too low. They said
you could not make 1t but il, is a
sheer waste of sense to say you can't.
They must be under the spell of
your peculiar personality"