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Show oo ADMITS DEI DRUNK AND IS FINED BY POLICE JUDGE Only one case came before the municipal mu-nicipal court this morning when the calendar of offenses against the ordinances ordi-nances of the city was read. The lone offender was Jack Bingham, who admitted ad-mitted being guilty to the charge having hav-ing been drunk when arrested last night on lower Twenty-fifth street. When asked if he had anything to say, Bingham said. "No. only that I v,.i drunk, all right." When Judge George S. Barker ask ed the defendant where he got the liquor, he caid he had drank sum. cider at one of the Italian or Greek fruit and soft drink stands on lower Twenty-fifth street and that it had made him intoxicated Judge Barker vindicated the cider by imposing a fine of ?a0 with the alternative of P. days in jail in case the hard cash should not materialize. It was stated, after the case had been closed, by one of the police officers of-ficers that a number of times defend ants had made charges that the soft drink stands had furnished liquids of quality so strong that something went wronc with their feet and tongue after drinking it. but that in a good number of such investigations It was made . rtam that a bootlegger had supplied with real red liquor. |