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Looks for Fortune, Finds Prison Term The search for fame and fortune of Kernsten Hansen, Swedish immigrant, has been postponed for at least 12 months. The red-headed husky from the nation of the Olsens and Yensens entered a plea of guilty to charges of breaking into a box car yesterday in second division court, and jury sentenced him to serve not more than three years in the state penitentiary Hansen came to this country several months ago, leaving his family with the assurance that he would soon amass a fortune in the "land of the free and prohibition. He promised that he would send for them as soon as his bank account would allow and left the old folks with high hopes and light hearts. But 'things broke bad" for Hansen. He has no great amount of education, and although his shoulders are broad and his back is strong, jobs were scarce and "he had no trade or profession. He secured work finally in coal mine, but that employment lasted but little while. Hansen then began to drift along the lines of least resistence, until one day last month he ran out of money -and cigarettes. His desire to smoke became too great and he broke the seal of box car in the local rallroad yards and stole a quantity of "fags. Only small supply was taken, but felony had been committed and the law must be satisfied. Now the old folks in the little mountain home will wait long time before they receive transportation to America from their erring boy. Instead of fame 1*fortune he found prison bars and rock piles. H. S. ORR BEFORE JURY. McConnell Asks Bankruptcy Adjudi- cation for Former Motor Salesman. Again a federal jury is to determine whether Harry Orr. former president of the Tri-State Motor Sales Company, was insolvent Dec. 19, 1923, for on this fact and one other depend whether he is adjudicated a bankrupt. It was on Dec. 19, 1923, that Mr. Orr is alleged to have executed a $15,000 third mortgage on his home at 1459 Central Avenue to Mrs. Rachel Paxton, giving her a preference over other creditors, it is contended by S. S. McConnell, state bank superintendent, as receiver for the Security Bank & Trust Company: the Madison Bank & Trust Company and the American Savings Bank & Trust Company. Mr. Orr denied on the witness stand yesterday morning before Federal Judge Anderson that he was insolvent and protested that the notes signed by him for the larger part were signed as president of the TriState Motor Sales Company and were not individual debts of his. In his answer filed to the charges instituted by the bank receiver he said that the banks had not exhausted their against the company. A federal jury once before. Feb. 21, 1925, decided that Orr was solvent. The.jury also decided he had not given Mrs. Paxton a preference in the bankruptcy revise. These two essentials are before them again on new trial. John Vorder Bruegge, Auvergne Williams and Ed Riddick, representing the banks, allege that Orr is indebted to the banks for thousands of dollars for indorsements on notes. Orr is represented by Hal S. Buchanan and W. G. Cavett.