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Show VRADE VENISON FOR BOOZE; NINETY DAYS SAYS BEAVER JUDGE Barter in Illicit Goods Brings Jail Sentence To Beaver Man Traffic in counterband goods, uncovered un-covered by Sheriff Neils Jensen in Beaver last week, in which the staple articles of barter was some freshly killed deer meat for a gallon of illicit moonshine, resulted in Bernett Ston-ey, Ston-ey, owner of the venison, and two itinerate it-inerate bootleggers from Las Vegas New, receiving a ninty days jail sentence sen-tence by Justice Walter S. Tolton in Beaver Friday. Thirty of the ninety days of Stoney's sentence was suspended, while the dispensers of the moonshine was given the choice of leaving the county or serving their ninety days. Needless to say they chose the former, form-er, with the understanding that their sentence would be effective any time they should return to Beaver county. The arrest of the two Las Vegas men, who were accompanied (by a woman, was made by Sheriff Jensen when he searched their car at the Ezra White camp groud for counter-band counter-band liquor and found a quantity of fresh venison in their possession, but no moonshine. The pair was placed under arrest, and confessed that they had received the meat in trade for a gallon of liquor implicating Bernett Stoney as the third man in the crime. Stoney was arrested and plead guilty to killing a deer out of season, and trading a portion of it for a gallon of liquor. 0 |