De France Sentenced

Kalamazoo, March 26. -At noon Safcarday Judge Buck sentenced Stonewall J. De France to 11 years at hard labor in Jackson prison. The attorneys for the prisoner moved that they be allowed five days in which to ask for a new trial. This was denied them. They then moved that they be allowed ninety days in which to prepare a bilí of exceptions. Judge Buck allowed this. The cool forger never showed a trace of feeling as the sentence was pronounced. Sheriff Vosburg and three deputies escorted hiin to Jackson in the afternoon. In passing sentence the judge said he had reeeived requests to give De France the extreme limit and he had been strongly urged to impose a very light sentence. He was happy to state that none of the officials connected with the prosecution of the case had asked that the extreme penalty of the law be visited on the respondent and no appeals for a light sentence have come from the respondent or his counsel or any one related to him in any way. To inflict on him the extreme penalty would be to make no distinction between one who had never before been convicted and those who have been many times convicted. On the other hand, in view of the verdict and all that it implied, the court had no right to impose a light sentence. "And," continued Judge Buck, '"it 'ought to be said also in this connection that we do not need to go outside of this state to find many instances in which men have obtained more than 5,000 by forgery or gross fraud and have reeeived a mnch lighter sentence than that pronounceel in this case." The men who burglarized the velocipede works were also sentenced as follows: George Smith, five years in Jackson; Dell Spurbeck, five years, and tíain Ashbolt. four years in lonia. The case agaiust George Johnson was nolle prossed.