Show COST H HS S lifE TO i ftP PL D E Habitual DrunKard Told Judge He lie Would V Never Touch Liquor Again and Died Refusing WhisKy CHICAGO O Opt Oct t. t 5 John John Gertz habitual drunkard but under parole to Judge McKenzie Mc- Mc Kenzie Cleland on a n promise not net to touch liquor again failed tailed to answer ann the in Cleland's court last night In Instead Instead Instead In- In stead Parole Officer Joseph Jooeph Jo eph handed the Judge a t typewritten report of ot Gertz's Gerts's battle to kep his pledge pledge pledge-a a a prom 1st that cost his Q IJ to keep Gertz's Gerts record In the court showed three for tor drunkenness when on April 30 he ho gave the Judge his word for fol forthe forthe the last time never to touch another drop He lIe went ent home to keep it In August he lie became ill ill conscious conscious of ot but two things that things that ho lie wanted whisky I and that ho had promised not to touch It Finally his agony ngon r became so intense that his brought In some whisky Ho raised himself In bed but Just as he put it to his hla lips ho remembered his pledge pl dge and dashed the tho glass across the tho room Then Thea he lapsed into a semi delirium and Mrs Gortz Gertz offered more whisky but again ho throw tho the glass class across tho the room The last act o of his hla life according to the report was to cast a 0 glass of or liquor from him Just as ns he lie was I seized by tho the final stroke of ot heart henrt disease |