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Show DISREGARDED I THE SMALLPOX I QUARANTINE I Forty five days at hard labor was the sentence jdven John Kaulkncr nv Judge Reeder in police court this morning Faulkner was charged wiMi leaving a quarantined residence be-fore be-fore he was given permission to do so by the health officers. He had been released from the pesthouse this morning, where he had been taken. following his escape from the quaran-tined quaran-tined house. Faulkner pleaded guilty to the charge but blamed his act to whisk;. He said that a friend had left a quart Hot He of whisky at the home. 401 West seventeenth street and that, af-ter af-ter he had taken considerable of the H liquor he acquired a fever to migrate and he set out from the house along the railroad tracks and. after prom-cnading prom-cnading along the streets, called on several friends at a house on Twen-tieth Twen-tieth street and Washington avenue. jH Sanitary Inspector George Shorten H stated that the man broke quarantine H j ten days after the flag had been p'ft' H i ed up He said the patient had been I confined In the pesthouse since Feb-ruary Feb-ruary 28. the day he broke away. In summing up the matter. Judge fl Reeder declared that he had no sym- I path for a man who, drunk or sober. H would subject citliens to a dise.iM- He recorded a 43 day Jail sentence B rw U |