Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — BROCKWAY SENTENCED. [ARTICLE]

BROCKWAY SENTENCED.

Thq King;, of Counterfeiters and His -Pan” Sent Vo Prison. Trenton, N. J., March 9. —William E. Brockway, Abbie L. Smith and William K. Wagner, the counterfeiters, were arraigned for sentence Saturday morning before Judge Green, of the federal court. Biockway was sentenced to ten years in state prison and to pay a fine of SI,OOO. Mrs. Smith was sent to the Essex county penitentiary for four years and will have to pay a fine of $250. Wagner received the lightest punishment owing to the fact that the jury had recommended him to the mercy of the court. His sentence was one year in the Hudson county penitentiary and a fine of SIOO.