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Show PATEIUT MEDICINE LEO TO OIK AID TB ' TO JAIL A man in police court this morning had been unwise enough to spoil a good record yesterday. Ever "since this state went dry he has proved that prohibition has meant money in the bank and comfort in the home. Before Be-fore the dry days he could not keep away from whiskey and its Influence brought him often Into court. More than fifteen months experience of the benefit of prohibition had not taught him his full lesson, however. Thinking Think-ing he was going to come down with tho grippe, he resorted to the use of a patent medicine that has li considerable consid-erable quantity of alcoholn its makeup. make-up. Tho taste of the old ,familiar liquor li-quor "sent him crazy," so he said, and he continued drinking the4 stuff Tuesday Tues-day morning. Officer Martin found him In a depressed condition at Twenty-third and Washington and arrested him. Sobered up this morning, he ap-. ap-. peared in court and pleaded guilty but asked the judge to show him mercy because he had tried to go straight, meant to go straight-, and there was a wifo and child at homo who would suffer suf-fer were he heavily fined or put in Jail. The testimony of the police proved the contention of the guilty man, that he had fought a winning fight for over twelve months with "booze." Judge Barker passed a suspended sentence of thirty days and Croft went away full of determination to make good. nn |