Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-07 | Page 16 | Wife Says Women Sold Spouse Drink

WIFE SAYS WOMAN SOLD SPOUSE DRINK Mrs. W. H. Hobbs Testifies She Saw Transaction While Standing on Box and Peeping Through Window. As a witness for the state at the preliminary hearing of Mrs. Gus Papon-lcholos, Papon-lcholos, charged with selling liquor in dry territory. Mrs. W. H. Hobbs, testified testi-fied to having seen Mrs. Paponicholos sell her husband, W. H. Hobbs, a bottle of whisky, the while Mrs. Hobbs spied upon tho transaction by means of standing stand-ing on a goods box outside the Paponicholos Papon-icholos store at Magna and gazing in through a window. Mrs. Hobbs testified that she wrested the bottle from the hands of her husband hus-band as he emerged from the back door of the store. She said that she turned over the bottle to the sheriff to be used as evidence. Part of the contents, con-tents, she said, was spilled in the struggle strug-gle with her husband. The hearing is being 'conducted before be-fore Precinct Justice Brigham Clegg. A continuance became necessary before conclusion of introduction of the state's evidence, since Deputy Sheriff C. C. Carstensen is out of the city and his testimony is necessary to establish identification iden-tification of the bottle of liquor introduced intro-duced by the state. Mr. Hobbs was also a witness and corroborated the story told by his wife. The two were in Magna at the time, October 25, according to their testimony, for the purpose of peddling ped-dling vegetables.