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Show HARD-CIDER HUMS ME IIPPFJIG II COURT Cider doped or tho real article Is giving the enforcement officers of Ogden Og-den almost as much trouble as the simon-puro bootlegger. Because of the frequency of hard-cider hard-cider drunks that have beon appearing appear-ing in municipal court during the last several days, Judge George S. Barker has ordered an investigation of the hard -cider Joints. The police already havo secured quantities of the fermented fer-mented "applo juice" for tests. "This hard-cider problem has reached a stage where it should be investigated," in-vestigated," said Judge Barker. "The places where it is sold should be Investigated. In-vestigated. Liquids that produce intoxication, in-toxication, whether it is hard cider, whiskey, bay rum or other brand aro prohibited. This court always has insisted in-sisted that the man who sells is the genuino offender the drunkard Is the victim. I suggest that officers investigate inves-tigate the sales of hard cider." Two defendants appearing in municipal munic-ipal courtt his morning pleaded guilty to hard cider drunks and each received re-ceived a fine of $50 or thirty days in jail. Thoy woro David Roach and J. L. Becraft, and both were arrested Saturday night by Officer Hearn. Roach stated that he had consumed about eight or nine glasses; Becraft also had taken on about the same quantity. Becraft gave it as his opinion opin-ion that "the cider must have been doped." Both men purchased, they said, at a bar on lower Twenty-fifth atroet, owned by an Italian. Thoro Is a probability that a sorles of arrests will bo made, although no announcement to that effect has b6en made. |