People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — TAYLOR IS SENTENCED. [ARTICLE]

TAYLOR IS SENTENCED.

Ex-Treasurer of (South Dakota Gets Five Yearn at Hard Labor. Pierre, S. D., Aug. 15. —The court room ■was crowded yesterday to hear sentence pronounced on W. W. Taylor, the defaulting ex-State Treasurer. When asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced on him Taylor in a low voice replied: “I have not.” Judge Gassy then reviewed the case and the different statutes bearing upon the crime. He considered the much-discussed section 1,665 void, and did not believe a two-year sentence was Intended to cover such a case as this. He said that Taylor's worst crime was In attempting to force a compromise after gathering together all the state funds he could lay his hands on. A sentence of five years at hard labor was then pronounced.