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MRS, SONZSKI DRAWSFINE AND 60 DAYSIN WOMANS PRISONWOMAN RECENTLY INVOLVED IN-BIG MURDER CASE FOUND GUILTY OF VIOLATING Ll-“ QUOR LAW.DAU6HTER MAKES' APPEALCauses Scone in Court When Sentence Is Passed—Quarrels With Prosecut ing Attorney It. E. Guinn.TUMAKeidi1I.Mrs. Mary Sonzski was fined $100 (eva and costs and sentenced to serve nea60 days in the woman's state prison, it v when found guilty of violating the 'I liquor laws at her trial in city court Tin today. iThe Sonzski premises in Klondike were raided on September 21, 1922,Brisidlt;by federal prohibition agents, who ^rnhappened to pass along the road1near the house and smelled the odor ; niatowatheastaiver\of mash. They searched,around the place twice the same afternoon. On the first visit they found a wash | q boiler still behind a coal sited and j pro when they went back the second time they discovered a 50-gallon still, about a gallon and a half of liquor, thirteen barrels of mash and a wash boiler which looked as though it was being converted into a still.Federal Agent J. A. Bryan testified that the place was also raided a few weeks ago and that twenty-four barrels of mash, a 200-gallon still and%twenty gallons of mule were found.Mrs. Sonzski claimed that at the timeEnjGrtthis raid took place she was visiting |)Cjin Ohio and did not knOw anything j about it. Victoria Sonzski, a youngdr sister and Joe Lubovich were at the j house, the officer testified.When the latter raid occurred no j one was about the place with the ex-ception of an aged woman. Mrs. p ( Sonzski, when placed on the witness stand today, asserted that the stills -v | belonged to a man who lives at North Terro Haute.1 | She admitted that she knew the•| still was behind the coal shed and p i when asked who put it there she said •s the man from North Terre Haute leftIn jit. She also said that the place die‘-.not belong to her and that she halt; '• : no right to tell him to take it away ‘t j When Judge G. E. Bingham im ” pcsed the fine and sentence, Victoria 't Sonzski burst into tears and went ujt*• to the bench occupied by the judg?outoci’3!and pleaded for her mother. She sail I that she could not take care of thfchildren and send them to school it j her mother was taken away. Judgt d , Bingham offered no sympathy.j In an exchange of words will n i Prosecutor R. E. Guinn, Victoria tearfully exclaimed: “You don’t re-ip member when you • used to run I around barefooted.” Mr. Guinn re-I’r plied. Yes. I was born barefooted.” i* | -Mrs. Sonzski brought no witnesses i-(with her for the trial. She was ac-^ com pa n led by her two daughters, st Victoria and Rosie, who remained at 1‘ !tbe jail after their mother was lock . ed up.d | A warrant is out for the arrest of Joe Lubovich as the result of the other raid made on the Sonzski home d. a few weeks ago. Lubovich was “ tried in Terre Haute on a charge of d murdering Mrs. Sonzski’s husband, ’d The widow, however, confessed that u- she did the killing in self defense.-hi•isili;•*es ort rai :u iofga’a*tbigo'Stare?°d• hrquThwhngWi:thlt;forfinterNoastirNcPhre
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Clinton Daily Clintonian
Clinton, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 30, 1922
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