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lugley.N..10;lea,mr-ton20.-ngoC.iatcip«,tonofearlandty'sC,.SO;i at Co.,JKheb-; J*W.forBootlegging Period in CourtThe Circuit Court convened last•\alt,r,$5;rsk,ofMonday, Judge Peter Buck on the bench. The week has been taken up mostly with eases of illegal selling of intoxicants, and the Judge doesn't seem disposed to show much leniency, lie nays it is not a question of wet and dry, bur it question of law, whether the low shall he enforced and offenders punished.In the ciiso of John Wilkson of Bonne Terre for violating the local option law on divers occasions, he erected to Ik? tried by jury, and wn« found guilty on one count, the jury assessing nis fine nt $1,001) with an additional punishment of twelve months1 continent' nt in jail. He took tut appeal from the judgment. There are other counts against him which havenot been disposed of.Wm. V-bridge, ui lt;)••; miitatriMigv, entered n plea of guilty, and the cmi t taxed hint with a line of $300. On the recommendation of tho Profit’i-u tin g Attorney he was pa rolled Other countw ug.rin? t A bridge were dismissed.Orover Sherman. another violatorof the local option law, pleaded guil to tho charge and was likewise entlt; ed up for t $300 tine. The* Proaecu tag Attorney in this case also recot mended parole.John Craft ami Iliad Jennings* * idently thinking that the judge w too much Inclined to sustain the It in ’*hoot lugging^ eases, decided thwould rather take their chances 1j fora somebody else, so applied for change of venue.There are quite a number of oth cases of violations of the Wul optilt; Jaw that have not yet been rcuiehe Other criminal cases disposed of n the* following;Ibnvey Mcirriv. grand larceny, which he pleaded guilty, and the coy gave him two yeans m the pcmtenl an?; jdra Frank Maloney for a {ij iiitViicti'-vn f the law got two youof |H*rial servitude.Henry Alexander pleaded guilty flourishing n deadly weapon, and tl court advised him thnt the ( (Tenwould cast him .100 and trimming and Uriah Bobbin# on n plea of gui ty of carrying a concealed weapi was impartially given a fine of $ UJ
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Farmington Times
Farmington, Missouri, US
Fri, May 12, 1916
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