Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-02 | Page 7 | Took a Drink That Went to His Head

S TOOK S DRI1 THAT WENT TO HIS HID Colson I. Rich, 560 Twenty-second, street, a boiler maker on the Southern j Pacific rallrond was arrested Sunday night at 7:10 on lower Twenty-fifth street and charged with being drunk.1 In court this morning the defendant ;. pleaded guilty but said that he was not really "drunk,"' that he had just' recovered from an attack of influenza, and his doctor had suggested that a , little stimulant might help him in his; , weakened condition; that he had taken, a little whisky with his meal and it "had gone to his head." Friends of, .the defendant pleaded that he is aj i young man of good character who has ; never appeared in court before, that he had been very sick and that he had ' attempted to go to work in a weak- j ened condition and had resorted to f Tvhisky as a stimulant. Taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, the judge or-1 dered the caso dismissed and warned ; the defendant against the use of liquor as a stimulant in large doses.