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Smyrna Times
Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware
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In Baltimore's U.S. District Court, Judge William C. Coleman sentenced Harry Emerson Dailey of Hartly, Del., and William C. Bell, Jr. of Dover, Del., to fines of $500 each and prison terms for passing counterfeit $5 bills at a Cecilton, Md., firemen's carnival last August.
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H. Emerson Dailey, Hartly, and W. C. Bell, Dover, Fined $500 and Termed
A fine of $500 each and sentences of twenty months in the Federal reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, and a year and a day at the Federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa., were imposed respectively last Wednesday on Harry Emerson Dailey and William C. Bell, Jr., in the United States District Court, Baltimore, Md. The sentences were imposed by Judge William C. Coleman following the conviction of the two by a jury Tuesday of last week on charge of possessing and passing counterfeit $5 bills at the firemen's carnival at Cecilton, Md., last August. In imposing sentence, Judge Coleman pointed out that Bell who is 23 and a resident of Dover, Del., had been in jail eight months awaiting trial, while Dailey, who is 21 and a resident of Hartly, Del., had been at liberty on bond.
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Baltimore, Md.
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Last Wednesday
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harry emerson dailey fined $500 and sentenced to twenty months in the federal reformatory at chillicothe, ohio; william c. bell, jr. fined $500 and sentenced to a year and a day at the federal prison at lewisburg, pa.
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Harry Emerson Dailey, 21, of Hartly, Del., and William C. Bell, Jr., 23, of Dover, Del., were convicted by a jury on Tuesday of last week of possessing and passing counterfeit $5 bills at the firemen's carnival at Cecilton, Md., last August. Sentences were imposed by Judge William C. Coleman in the United States District Court. Bell had been in jail eight months awaiting trial; Dailey had been at liberty on bond.