Cattle Thief Sent to Penitentiary After Two-Year Jail Wait
Henry Bubank, convicted for stealing cattle in Whitman County, begins a five-year sentence after his appeal failed.
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Henry Bubank was brought to the penitentiary yesterday from Colfax to serve a term of five years for cattle stealing. Bubank was arrested about two years ago, charged with stealing several head of cattle from a farmer in Whitman county. Upon trial in the superior court, he was convicted and sentenced to five years. He appealed his case to the state supreme court, which recently sustained the decision of the lower court. He has been confined in the county jail at Colfax for two years.
“Henry Bubank was brought to the penitentiary yesterday from Colfax, to serve a term of five years for cattle stealing.”
Cattle rustling remains a sensitive issue in Washington's rural eastern counties. This case highlights the slow pace of the judicial system at the turn of the century, where the defendant spent two years in local jail awaiting the outcome of a state supreme court appeal before beginning his actual sentence.
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