Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-19 | Page 2 | Parents Jailed; Six Children Are Destitute

Parents Jailed Six Children Are Destitute F Father ather Persistent Violator and Mother Sentenced as Drunks Kiddies in County Charge I PROVO March 19 While While their six children are being cared for by bythe bythe bythe the county Artie Carter 53 of South Fifth East street and Mrs Carter must serve six months in the city jail jall for having been drunk Mrs Carter w WOe was s sentenced yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day and Carter was sentenced to today today today to- to day by Judge George S. S Baliff after both had pleaded guilty to the In Intoxication In- In charge chars Carter has been a a. persistent violator violator vio yb- lator of the prohibition law it Is said and has been In jail several times during the l last st two years During the Wednesday night debauch debauch debauch de de- de- de bauch when Officers George Durnell Durnell Durnell Dur- Dur nell and Ll Lloyd Thornton approached the Carter home Carter Is said to have had a shotgun in his hand which he discharged as the policemen policemen policemen police police- men approached hed He claimed that thata a prowler had been around the house and that he fired to frighten him away However Chief of ot Po PolIce Police Po- Po lice Wren Wilkins declares that he stopped the officers officers' at the p point paint of ot the gun As both bath Mr and Mrs Carter were badly intoxicated according to the officers he was quickly disarmed and the two were taken to the city Jail C Carter was arrested In December December De De- cember last and given a six months' months sentence but he was released This time according to Chief Wilkins both both- must serve out their time and it will be up to the county to care for the six children who range from 5 to 15 years in age I