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Prisoners React In Various \yaysA young man from the Filer section, named W. M. Crist, who! without '.giving his exact place of residence, said last night if the cops would take him to a place three miles one way and two miles another from that town the people would tell them that he was the gamest kid that ever came down the pike. He suggested that he would be glad to lick any of the police, and denied that he was carrying nitroglycerine or other explosives on his person. The police had evidently given a new title to moonshine. A relative of Crist said they came ,to town to-(gether in the evening. * Crist disap-! peared. He got a phone message athome saying the young man was in jail.A quiet and philosophical young gentleman named Tommy Smith occupied the same' cell as Crist into which hehad been inducted a couple of hours earlier by William Mumpower, police officer, on a* charge of- seeking l to dispose of a pint of alleged intoxi-i cants to a thirsty fellow citizen. The officer said he caught him in an al-i ley parsing the goods. He denied the bootlegging feature.Mr. Thompson, held for undue ex-hileration, wanted to go home but seemed to get quite a kick out of certain parts of the conversation. He put up bond later for appearance, and was released.SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS.
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Twin Falls Daily News

Twin Falls, Idaho, US

Sun, Nov 20, 1927

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