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Show FATHER OF FIVE MDj HUSBAND OF SICK . MFESfflJOKD j On the seat outside the court room I were five children, aged from ! to 10 . years, two little girls, and three boys, and inside the court room were four pint bottles and a quart bottle of whis-l ky standing in evidence on the table . implicating Daniel Laner, the father of the children who runs the Alpine hotel, with selling Intoxicating liquors. I Laner pleaded guilty to having the liquor In his possession but said tha 1 ho had never sold any before la?t night and that he only sold it then to help out his poverty stricken condition caused by the long illness of his wife and the poor business of his rooming house. "If you don't let ray daddy out what's goin' to happen to us and to my poor mother sick at homo?" cried the 10-ycar-old girl to Officer Dick who was iu the corridor outside the court room. Judge Roberts sentenced Laner to $200 fine or. 130 days in the cltv jail with hard labor. "Can't you make it a bit cheaper," queried th,c defendant, but the judge made no reply. |