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Show 'BEEF, IRON AND WINE, THE LATEST 1 DRINK EMPLOYED TO PRODUCE A FEELING OF INTOXICATION I Joe Brown and Tom Hunt, from whose arrest the officers learned that I paregoric is used as a substitute for I intoxicating liquor, faced trial in the I municipal court this morning and, aft-J aft-J er much questioning by City Attornev W. H Reeder, Jr.. added to paregoric another substitute for whiskey. The second substitute they admitted was "Beef. Iron and Wine," a patent medicine medi-cine When the two men were arrested and searched at the city jail Sunday evening two small bottles of paregoric were found on the person of Hunt, one of the bottles being nearly empty. The label on the bottles showed that the contests to be almost 50 per cent ; pure alcohol and a small percentage jof opium, the two combining to provide pro-vide a "double-kick." When the two men faced the court I this morning thev denied having I drank liquor of any sort. Officers Pin-cock Pin-cock and Richardson told of arresting J the men at the corner of Washington ! avenue and Twenty fourth street, after ! hearing two men and two women who were passing make remarkR about the condition of the men, one of the women wom-en saying. ' That doesn't look very much as though the town is dry, doels it?" The officers found the two men staggering at the corner and giving every ev-ery indication of being Jntoxicated. Near where they stood was also found an empty whiskey bottle. The two men denied having any knowledge of how the whiskey bottle came to be there on the ground, and they also denied de-nied -having taken any whiskey, lender cross examination Hunt i claimed that he had pleurisy when he came in Saturday from work on the I stato highway north of Ogden valley val-ley and had bought the paregoric to relieve the pain. Judge Reeder said to the witness, "Now, Tom when I was police Judge and you used to face me on charges bf being drunk you remember when you painted the Jail you claimed that you would not lie. Tom, tell the truth this time. You know you had something some-thing to drink besides paregoric. What did you drink, Tom?" "Well, judge, my reputation for truth will be sustained. I had a cou-! pie of drinks of 'Beef, Iron and Wine' that a fellow in the crowd with us 1 had. The label on the bottle said it was blood medicine," admitted the de-, fendanL "Now, didn't that 'Beef, Iron and Wine' affect you a little, Tom?" asked Mr. Reeder. Tom admitted that it did affect him a little, but he did not seem to desire to admit that he was drunk, as charged. Judge Barker found both guilty and I gave them a lecture and a suspended sentence, saying: "I do not feel that a,t this time it would be just the proper thing to have you men put in jail, for I can see that there are extenuating circumstances. You men have both been addicted to the drink habit, apparently, and when the supply was cut off last summer it did not relieve you entirely of the craving crav-ing for strong drink. And I presume, also, that after drinking the paregoric you became so dazed that you did not know whether it was real whiskey in the bottle that was labeled 'Beef, Iron and Wine.' So I will advise you to leave paregoric alone if you do not wish to become drug fiends. And I further advise you, if you are brought before this court again, a jail sentence will be imposed. I believe your work is needed for the country and for that reason I w ill order a suspended sen-1 sen-1 1 nee." |
