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SENTENCED TO FIVE MONTHS AND FINED IN COURT OF LANDISJudge Says $16 a Quart for Liquor is Too Muck(By Associated Press,} - ba Qrw*ie — Frank Haven, and Louis Hank of Madison, after a wrangle before the bar, In which each accused the other of the Brouter share of Responsibility for iho manufacture and sale* of moonshine for which they were held, were sentenced to five months in the house Of correction and $100 fine apiece, by Judge Landis here today. Rank snJel that Haven had threatened to shoot him and Mrs. Hank it they told, but this *Haveu denied as he also denied statements of prohibition officer* that ho had threatened thoin when his shop was searched.*T want you to know/* haid Judge Landis, hi sentencing Joseph Halhubi. of Marengo, that 1 am not fooled about your case. You've denied this, but 1 know that you kept a pretty tough joint. You sold moonshine to boys of 17, IS and 19 years old. Three hundred dollars and six months in the house of correction.John Gesseri, Watertown, was given a 1200 and ninety days 1n the hous* of correction. Peter Harris, Noccdah. who refused an offer of the Judge to reopen his caeo whftn Harris said he could bring witnesses to show that he had refused money for the aalo of liquor, was given $10 fine and ninetyday*.Andrew Taisel and Tony Rodlsh, Jackson county men, 'held guilty of operating a still, and selling moon-shine, were sentenced to fines of $50 each, and one got three months *n(l the other four in the house of correction.Whew/ exclaimed Judge Landl*, when Luke S. K^antcy, Chippewa Fails hotel keeper, etaid he sold llQUor for $IG a quart, 'That's too much. That's* an awful price/*The judge, in Kearney1* case, granted a slay pending the production of further evidence.
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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Feb 24, 1921
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