SENTENCES ILLEGAL VOTER.
Two Years for Veteran Who Voted
Twice in Independence.
Stephen H. Powell, a veteran of the civil war, charged with voting illegally at the recent local option election in Independence, pleaded guilty before Judge W. H. Wallace yesterday in the criminal court and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Powell will probably be paroled on account of his age and the conditions under which he violated the law.
He tells his story to the Prosecuting Attorney I. B. Kimbrell very frankly:
"I was drunk on election day," Powell says. "I don't remember whether I voted once or a dozen times If anybody saw me vote twice, I can't deny it, because I don't know what I did."
"Which way did you vote, for or against the local option" asked Kimbrell.
"I started out to vote 'wet,' but can't say what I did do."
