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HAVENS FOUNDIN LIQUOR CASEDecision Is Reached After Long Night Session HereSAYS INUSINESS NEFAIllOUS“Tlte evidence showed very clearly and without any neriou* dlflputc that you were Kullty an chnrfftd^ nnitl Jwdpe Nels J. I*«e Sn Kcntcnclng Sheldon Ilaven for bnotlegglng In Clay county dlalrict eoprt lunt Friday afternoon* lt;£Y«i* maw fit to not go on the atnnd .11* you lind « right to- I cannot help liut feel you arc guilty and curry-In« around the atiiff In « car for sale. Nothin* to nhow nny denial of thin wnh offered.“The binineiH of bootlegging In n moot nefarious business. I fall to understand why nny man with any self respect and decency cn-Kitffes In It* It Is a business long ago prohibited In Iowa and now prohibited by federal laws. Everybody Knows nowday* that It Is prohibited and everyone who docs so luiows he Is violating the laws* They hope to escape by keeping under cover and prevent the officers from securing the proper amount of evidence.“It Is the Judgment of this court that you are guilty and that you lieImprisoned in the county jail of Emmet county for a period of four months and puy the costs of this notion.”\Sheldon Havens, of Spencer, familiarly known as -Tossum was found guilty of the crime of bootlegging by a Jury of cloven men and one woman in Clay county district court last Friday morning. The verdict was reached after eleven hours by the jury, during which, it 3e said, sixteen ballots were taken.Havens was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment in the county jail of Emmet county by Judge Nela J. Leo'at four o'clock Friday afternoon. *T want him where 1 can watch him a Lid not have him run around loose in the yard.” said the judge. He was taken up Friday morning.Conviction of Havens, after two previous juries had found defendants in similar cases not guilty, will have a decided moral effect upon the stopping of illicit liquor traffic In Clay county, according to the officers. Conclusive evidence In such cases, they say, is hard to obtain and to establish their guilt beyond all reasonable doubt to a moral certainty” is a difficult task with the human element of juries taken into consideration.
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Spencer News Herald
Spencer, Iowa, US
Thu, Apr 05, 1923
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