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j jm* 111 liji .siunr piave iasi. mgiu.? •' ! S v* »V IDRUNKS AND YAGS ARE i!1 innnrairn ikt rmm^MKARRAIGNED IN COURTI I ( \(1V^CLAIMS LIQUOR JUST CAME OF j fI) * 1OWN ACCORD. V: !(* ♦ ♦If. * I» _i City Judge Claude A. Lee Unable tori I,Learn How Intoxicating Beverage * Reached Elkhart.1 i' lt;iL ir ! iiL! Todnv was ilriiiik ami day In * tj► ithe city court, ill roe drunks and four * f* I j; vagrants capi ured in the Big Four f11/ | ' *¥■ ! Vlt; yards at an early hour this morning j! being arraigned before City Judgej£t Claude A* Lee. Ja“You are charged with having been sf i intoxicated/* said Deputy Prosecutor I Skinner to James Weiser. »1i Ij “I was what***.’ asked the prisoner. I; “Drunk, said the at torney. j J;I “Yes,” said Weiser. ’| Five dollars and costs, said tliej^rjjn%et, lQ“fni an Irishman, my name is John i Martin. 1 was drunk. and I’ll leave ‘town in three minutes it* you'll only j’* ,iiinnnnr*Ori nricfMitii* \'n ••X let me go/* announced prisoner Xo. 2.;r- “Go, decreed the court. Martin j(| I went.• 5 Ij “Where did you get tiie “booze you j I s j drank/' asked Attorney Skinner of j » John Driscoll. i[\ I “Well, your honor. F1I tell you the j j wihole truth/* replied t.he drunk. “1 j i. | was quietly snoozing in a si de-door j 1?I I Pullman in the yards, and a couple j ly jot' road rollers from up Michigan way]4 were booted of a rattler by the shacks* 1 and they climbed into , our sleeping | r_ * apartments. One shoved a. long-neck j cj | into my phiz and I 100k two swigs and ih i [ went back to sleep- The next thing It! I knew a couple of Tnrlls ainbled in and gave me the hot tfqot and Pin [ f here-”lt;i-1.ini1. “That; is sufficiently pkiin. said IJ Judge Lee. “IT1 give you fifteen min-P xl! ntes to get outside the city limits. itiwc(; Ulto tu otJl -UUIOIUV*, JllillLO. i' * • • *. . - • ' «Thomas Evans, Thomas Burns and. Thomas Clark and James Kelley were !1 ,s also released on tlieir promises' to j v leave town. The men were captured ie by Policemen Shchnadine and Leach -man iu the Big Foiiiy yards about J o'clock this morning*.
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Elkhart Weekly Truth

Elkhart, Indiana, US

Thu, Mar 24, 1910

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