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Show RAILROAD BRAKEMAN FINED ; $75 FOR UNLAWFUL BOOZE i . ,. ... .' Brakeman Thayer's Grip Was Search ed for Passenger's Lost Gloves and Liquor Found. Fined $75. 1 1 ,. i Charles Thayer, charged with having hav-ing intoxicating liquor in his possession, posses-sion, entered a plea of guilty In Precinct Pre-cinct Justice 93. iL. Jones' court Friday and was fined $75. The accusation against Mr. Thayer grew out of a strange trick of fate. A passenger on the train on which iMr. Thayer was running missed a pair of gloves from the pocket of his overcoat, which hung1 on the back of a seat in front of the passenger. 'He made a roar about his loss and Special Agent L. H. Curt-wright, Curt-wright, who was on the train, took up the matter, lie asked the passenger whom he had noticed sitting on the seat in front of him, and he named the brakeman Mr Thaver. In order tn satisfy the passenger, and not with the expectation of finding the gloves, iMr. Thayer's grip was opened. (As was anticipated by Mr. Curtwrlght the gloves were not found; but four bottles bot-tles of whisky, also not expected, were found. |