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Seven Plead GuiltyBefore Judge At LubboekLUBBOCK, May 16 lt;/P~Seven of eight defendants charged by indictment in connection with the theft early in November of a U. S. mail pouch containing $29,000 in cash and currency this morning entered pleas of guilty before Judge William H. Atwell, judge presiding over the May term of federal court heie, and were immediately sentenced to terms in the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kas.The case against the eighth, M. L. Cathey, was dismissed on a motion of the United States District Attorney Clyde O. Eastus.Sentences imposed were: JackCathey, 44, of O’Donnell, four years in Leavenworth: Hoy Cathey, 23, of O’Donnell, fifteen months in Leavenworth; James O. Petty, O’Donnell, 18 months in Leavenworth; James T, Morris of Kerr-ville, two years, suspended for three years on good behavior; Sidney A. Miller, Spur and Dallas, 30 months in Leavenworth and a fine of $1,000; Carl E. Williams, Brown-wood. 30 months; Rufus H. McNur-len of near Borger, two years.The mail pouch disappeared Nov. 4 or 5. It was consigned to the First National bank of O’Donnell from the Federal Reserve bank of Dallas.Officers working on the case apprehended various of the defendants in scattered parts of West Texas. Miller was arrested in Atlanta, Ga.
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Big Spring Weekly Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Thu, May 19, 1938
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