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WILL SOT HE POPIfLAIC l!V ILAFAYKTTE.| I**wtt Collin* lnaw» m Fine of1100 and i'OKt* and oo Day* InMl in flhe (% Court Thursday Morning —* 100 l*y* In Jail for Boow Helling.IftTuesday. Harry tlradley. an old; offender, waa found “stewed as In ; the old days and he was questioned at police headquarters. The officers ,learned from Bradley that he hadgiven Lehort Collins, a laborer. 7 fyears old. 95 and that Collins had ; told him he would And a quart of whisky under a coat in the stair-1 way at 424 W Columbia street. Collins claimed that he did not know how the liquor got under the coat, but the authoritlpR searched his room and found a two gallon glas* jug more than half full of whisky.1 a qusrt bottle with a quantity In It.several empty beer bottles, nnd a number of small whisky flasks. Collins was thereupon arrested for violating the blind tiger law.Collins was tried before Judge Hudson in the city court yesterday morning and after hearing the evl*, dence the Judge found him guilty and sentenced Collins to sixty days In Jail and to pay n fine of 1100 and* costs or to remain In jail 192 days. Judge Hud on is being warmlycongmtulnted on his stand in thismatter, it being the policy of the officers to put out of commissionall Illegal sellers of whisky andsince Collins began his operations he has been doing a land office business.The promptness nnd thoroughness with which Judge Hudson disposed of him meets th approval of •M ,,lr minded, law abiding cttl- j
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Lafayette Tippecanoe County Democrat
Lafayette, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 07, 1918
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