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Show SIXTY YE AES IX JAIL. A Term out Liquor Seller's Punishment. Ho Is Convicted on 724 Out of l,COO Indictments. Indict-ments. Hanover, X. II., Jan. 10. A man of 50 was sentenced to sixty-three years imprisonment for liquor selling, being convicted on 723 out of 1000 indictments. indict-ments. That sounds like a law of some other country than this, but it is what has happened to G. F.Kibling, a citizen of Norwich, Vt., a little hamlet -just across the river from this old college town, the seat of Dartmouth college. Every college graduate for the last twenty years at least knows "Kib."' For a decade or so h has defied the law and the prophets, as exemplified by the august faculty of the college, and has supplied the ardent more or less surreptitiously to all the students who chose to call on him. Its quality has been terrible, its cost far from moderate, yet it was liquor and that was enough. Time and time again has th faculty "nailed"' him. Countless times has the victim appeared in court and penitently penitent-ly taken an oath not to sell again. He has even signed documents promising to keep the students "dry,-' which would bo posted upon the college bulletin board for the delectation and guidance of tho boys, who on that promise were allowed to get their meals at the hotel, for Kibling was enterprising and ran the Opera House billiard hall, boarding house and blind bar room, all under the same roof, to say nothing of a skating rink and other adjuncts too numerous to be catalogued. All this was in Hanover itself. IJut not Jong ago there were signs of trouble, trou-ble, lie saw a bigger storm than usual i brewing in the faculty headquarters, ! stirred up mainly by Professor Emerson, Emer-son, the instructor in chemistry. He therefore moved back across the river into Vermont, and there set up his goods, calling: his place the Pine Tree i Inn, or some such name. The State of Vermont, as is well ; known, has a vigorous prohibitory law on its statute books, and though it is not always well enforced yet it can be, as Mr. Kibling found out to his grief. Tho learned professors went to work collocting evidence and to such good effect that they procured the modest number of 10D0 indictments against the astonished Kibling for the illegal sale of liquor. His son. true to his early training, promptly turned state' evidence against him. and was brought into court. In vain did he try his bid dodge of swearing that he would tempt the thirsty no more; useless hig penitence peni-tence though accompanied by tears a method that had always been potent before. A "compromise'' was arranged, arrang-ed, whereby Kibling was tried on only 7l!H indictments, and all of these he w;: found guilty and sentenced to (i3 years in jail, or to pay a fine of $8000. The luckless bonifs.ee chose tho former alternative and has begun his terrible term of imprisonment. |