Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — Former Governor Sent to Prison. [ARTICLE]

Former Governor Sent to Prison.

Franklin J. Moses, once of South Carolina and twice speaker of the South Carolina House, was sentenced in the municipal court at Boston Thursday to serve four months at Deer Island for fraud and theft. Moses was charged with giving a check for SSO in payment for an overcoat on a South Carolina - bank in which it-was learned the ex-governor had no funds. It was further learned that Moses had pawned the coat. In his defense the ex-governor said that at the time of giving the check he believed he had money in the bank. When he learned that he had not, he said, that, feeling that the coat was unpaid for, he put It In a safe place till funds should be forthcoming to meet his obligations.