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HART GOES TO PRISON.Supreme Court Confirms the Ex-Editor’s Sentence.r ...... ISTATISTICS ON CROPS IN IOWA.Bureau at. Boa Moines Issues a Report } For liiist'. Season—Physician Sued For I '1 aMalpractice—Rabbits Destroying Corn— ^ Twelve-Year-Old Hoy Thief—News In 13 Iowa and Nebraska. ^iDes Moines, Dee. 12.—Tlio supreme court affirmed the judgment of the ( Plymouth county district court in the ( caso of the state against Atlee Hart, j sentenced to a year in tlio penitentiary ] for extortion. It was one of the fore- L most cases in the history of the state. ^ Hart was a capitalist at Sioux City, c living across the Missouri in Nebraska, j He was at one time prominent in Ne« 2 brnska politics and a newspaper editor. 3 Three years ago the Chicago Sunday j Snn began writing up scandalous arti- t cles about prominent Sioux City people. ^ J. L. Lowis was the Sioux City eorres- ^ pondent and made a business of extort- j ing money from people by the threat to r *‘write them up. ” Hart acted as a go- ^ between to compromise these matters c and received the money. cA trap was laid and he was caught re- ^ ceiving money. After a long sensation- ^ al trial he and Lewis were convicted. Lewis served his term, but Hart took the case to the supreme court, which has now held that he must serve out his C term. Hart claimed that ho had no ® connection with Lewis and was merelv I* iacting as friend of the people to whom f he went. a
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Atlantic Weekly Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Wed, Dec 18, 1895
Page 4
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