Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-09-04 | Page 6 | He Stole to Cure Habit

ii HE STOLE TO CURE Jim HABIT FranK FranR Preston Told J Judge Armstrong That He Was an Opium Fiend Five Years in State Prison Prison- Judge e I went into that house e to gel get money to cure mo mc of tho the opium habit said aid Frank Preston to Judge Armstrong in in tho thi District court today He lie was arrested Sunday for entering the Bennett Ben Beu nett tt home on D street The Tho story told by Preston was WS a n pitiful one He lie hn has been a fiend to the tho drug drue for ears 3 and it has grown own on him until he is in a deplorable condition Ho said he be wanted wanted want ed to be cured of ot it but bitt had no mone money Jud Judge e Armstrong sentenced him to five Iho years in the State prison assuring him that he would bo entirely free from the habit at the expiration of tho the term