Show Claude Jac Case I Dismissed Jud Judge e 1 M L Rr R hie refused to im impose impose pose the minim minimum t 1 sentence in the form of i a 0 0 0 five upon Claude Chude Ji J dru drug Cle k who sold the pOison which res ted in m the tal death of Mrs Irs Clarinda Little on June 18 after fter th complaint a against Jacob Jacobsen Jacoben en ha hal l I bee reduced to a n nus mis misdemeanor misdemeanor demeanor and Jacobsen had pleaded gUll guilty He lie then dismissed dis dismissed missed the case Judge t took ok k the position that If Jacobsen was ms guilty of selling str strychnine to cu customer tomer when that customer asked fo for qu nine less thina thIn a thirty div hv jail s sentence could not be Imposed lie He also believed that if the th clerk clerk clerks wis s not of oC the charge that the case cise should sh gild be dismissed 3 against him The latter n was as taken when hen A A Duncan i district t it torney tomey eel ed a O fine for Jacobsen I Jacobsen was as charged vuth Ith substituting a poison for flu qu nine which was vias allegedly asked for fory y Elli Ella Holman Irs Little e a niece mece whom she sent to the Triangle dru drug drugstore drugstore store stere Ninth East Jand and Ninth South streets for the q to be used as a headache potion pot on lie He lieas was as also accused of failing to 0 label the pack package ng age properly asked to amend the corn com plaint making tho offense otTense a misdemeanor nor meanor by char charging ns Jacobsen with failing to the of the which it is alleged by Jacobsen the girl Irl risked for He lIe Heas was as asI also accused of failing f to ha have hae e the I sign the poison pOlSon register lS as bv by law Lx L Governor Charles R it Mabey one of the owners of the t the e drug stor story store where here Jacobsen is employed took the stand it II behalf of the defendant lIe He test fled fied that thit Jacobsen is married has hns three children is a man of excellent cJ- cJ and seven years years ears e is i a drug clerk When Jud Judge e indicated he h hec expected e Duncan to recommend what hat t he deemed suitable penalty and the th e pi ed unprepared a re recess rece cess was as taken It It was Vm follo following the th e recess that Duncan Duncan recommended i 1 fine and Judge Ritchie declined to accept it resulting in m the dismissal 10 The Triangle Drug company hi s alread already paid thy the th husband and chel dren of Mrs Irs Little 1000 t in m settle settlement settlement mint ment of a n civil suit bearing on th the e circumstances under v the crim I mal coal action was as as instituted instituted |