| Show FIRST DISTRICT COURT judge henderson speaks on the liquor question A motion for a new trial will be made in the case of Alc mcgragh McGra Gratti lh an order has been made that the evidence be transcribed at the expense of the people C E arraigned for sentence yesterday said he thought himself justified lu stifled in selling liquor and quoted from a newspaper some comments on the liquor law in support of his position the court remarked that what a newspaper might say was no excuse for hira him as the law was explicit the defendant had sold the worst kind of liquor without inquiring I 1 or paying any attention az as to it was for the court conti continued aued there was no justification n I 1 aoi or the offense of which defendant stood convicted and no evidence tending to excuse it the ordinance which he had violated should be sustained and the court would not protect the practice of violating it it was right apat the defendant should pay a heavier fine than the lower court had imposed that the municipal treasury might be reimbursed imbur sed tor for the extra expense incurred in prosecuting the case cabe the court stated that hereafter imprisonment would woula be imposed in cases of persistent liquor selling sellin and sentenced to pay a fine of 75 ordering that he be stand committed un ua til the floe fine should be paid and expressing the hop a h a t this would be a useful lesson to lim aim united states vs jesse gardner Gardn eruna sun lawful cohabitation arraigned ana pleaded not guilty the people vs rogers and tiffany grand larceny set I 1 for November or tta the witnesses are in ashley and the case was set as above that the trial might be had bad without keeping the prisoners in jail till next year robert barr charged with adultery was arraigned and pleaded not guilty aaron hardy charged with unlawful al cohabitation changed his lormer former plea pies of not guilty to one of guilty and expressed himself as being ready for sentence ben tence A statement of his bis f financial 4 pricia I 1 condition showing him to be beyt rt poor man was made to the court ou the sentence was six months imprisonment and costs of prosecution nels P PM madsen adsen charged with the same offense likewise changed his plea and aad was sentenced to three months imprisonment and a fine of 1200 and costs edward cluff charged with the same offense ina made d e the same change of plea and received a sentence of six months and and costs coats john T lamberts was another case of the same kind ue ile made the same change of plea and received a sentence of six months and costs of prosecution ec ution all of the above who were sentenced were marched off to the train and sent to the penitentiary the court announced that in unlawful cohabitation cases the date of the last marriage birth of ake last child byj plural wife whether defendant had given trouble to twe tile officers his financial condition and the circumstances of his family would be taken into consideration I 1 in n passing sentence united states vs va F A Tet charged with having committed adultery with a woman understood tobe his plural wife was in progress |
