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n DIDN’T BELIEVE GRIP STORY. 0 -0 Judge Byers Took No Stock in Talef and Threatened Penal Farm1Sentence.IIGeorge Hawkins, a local barber, was r given a hearing before Judge Byers | s n Thursday afternoon in police court to answer to the charge of intoxication._ Hawkins was arrested Wednesday 0 night on complaint of his wife. The accused entered a plea of not guilty . saying that he had been ill with the q grip and had gone to Peru for a little medicine. The police testified that j Hawkins had made threats at home p and that his wife had requested that he be locked up. They stated that he g was found in an intoxicated condition.!^ Judge Byers took no stock in Haw-'1 kin’s grip story and recalled the number of times he had been up for being drunk before. When the judge inferred that he might send Hawkins to the penal farm he put up the plea that his family needed his support, j * Judge Byers sent Hawkins to jail until , 2 o’clock Saturday when his wife will appear in court to testify as to her J husband’s behavior and her means of , support.stn
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Kokomo Daily Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1917
Page 14
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