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Show BOOTLEG BOOZE KILLS YOUTH AT IDAHO DANCE . Springville Man Returns from Funeral of Nephew Killed J by Liquor. j i Amyot Cerrington recent ly re- turned to Springville f rom Cast le-ford, le-ford, Idaho, where be has been (o ;( attend the funeral services of his i nephew, Amyot Thomas. Mrs. Lucinda Cherrington Thomas, j ( the mother of the boy, was a Spring- y. ville girl who was well and favor- ably known by a great many Spring- ville people and most of the Cher- t rington familv still reside at Springville Spring-ville The following account of the boy's death is taken from (he Twin Falls Daily Times and Buhl Republic: Re-public: . "A victim, it is believed, of bootleg boot-leg liquor, myot Thomas. 11. son of Mr. and Mrs G. F. Tlumms and ; student of the Cast It-ford big! ; school, died early Monday lanniin. at the family home throe ;n:d one half miles soul Invest of Casilefon' following an i linos of two ,eek "The lad became ill b ile play ing ball at school on the afternoon j of pril 1, but remained in school ; I hroiigbout the day and made bis J way home on horseback. His condi- t tit in was so serious when be ar- 1 1 rived home that a doctor was called immediately. He continued in a state of delirium most of the lime :, in 1 1 il lie expired. i "The case was invest igaled by : j John R. Ault, probation officer, and r Sheriff Finch. : "Dentil r.f the lad wilh atlendnnt V circumstances has aroused the en- ', . tirec omniunity, in which the boy I,; j was held in hiuh esteem. 3 "According to Ihe testimony of ; ij Buhl Gilleti, the chief witness for I 3 the slate, be was attending a dance and be and three other boys put in ' Z ipiarier. He went to the Castleford ' : poo! ball, he stated, and asked for Clinton Bowman. He said Bowman, , : who runs the ba rber shop in t he V j tpool hiill, came out and they went ,'" ; iio the northwest corner of the hall 't ; jouisi.le. He walked on about. m ; feet and Bowman brought him the .; I liquor there, according to bis tesii- j 1 I an mv. ; , "Tile e::,, t and platform were ! ; covered with flowers." But the mother and the father couid hardly see them. The sympathy was not , ; misplaced tun what a difference : there would be in that home today if the lesson had been learned by the community in time. The (pies- !. lion is has the lesson been learned ' yet V "For the sake of a paltry litlle money someone stood ready to give the poison under the guise of 'boot- .! leg whiskey thinking himself well , protected by indifference, t be fear 1 , of some that they might hurt someone's some-one's feelings if they should tell, 1 or else that they were too smooth for the right thinking men and women who do not associate with ,; , their kind. "It is hard to believe that' any ' man would be so low that he would willingly let a boy only 15 years old take even a drink of the stuff know- : ing that deaths by the dozen have 1 followed in the path of such deals, but evidently there are such. "Whose boy will be next ' Or will it be the father or husband? ) AYill those who are in a posil bui i to aid in shutting out this traffic continue to sacrifice the loved ones ' of their friends or will they show : their manhood now in protecting the wives and children from the bites ' 1 of such snakes? Playing square i1 does not mean shielding an outlaw t' that is helping to destroy your ' friends." |