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Judge J. D. Bradwefl Gives Deeb Lewis Four Straight Months For Having Liquor.Negro Woman Also Gets Four Months. Lewis Arrested In December 1921 After Raid.Two peoples a white man and negro woman, both charged withhnving whiskey were givenstraight chaingang sentences by Judge J. D. Bradwell in City Court Monday.The white man, Deeb Lewis was sentenced to serve four months on the chaingang after a jury had found him guilty of having whiskey. The negro woman, Sophie Allen, was also sentenced to four months on the chaingang.The negro woman's husband, John Allen, was also tried for having whiskey but the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.Deeb Lewis was arrested In December 1921 after city and county officers had raided his home and store near the Seaboard railroad I station.About three gallons of whiskey was captured and nearly 100empty bottlca-Toio fouiid^tehicbofficers claimed . were • used by Lewis in peddling bootleg whiskey.An effort by Carlislo Cobb, Lewis' attorney to secure a now
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Athens Banner
Athens, Georgia, US
Tue, Nov 28, 1922
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