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Show Sells Cigarettes to Minor; Gets $60 Fine Receiving the second heavy fine to be Imposed on dealer who are found to be selling cigarettes and tobacco to minors. R. Varella. a Spunlsh merchant mer-chant of 141 Twent -fifth street, was sentenced to pay a fine of $60 or the alternative In city court this morning Varella pleaded guilty to the charge. E. J. Stowell, arrested on a similar, charge fulled to appear and his ball amounting to $2f, waj declared for-I for-I f" lted. A bench farrant was Issued for I his arrest. Another similar case was turned over to the Juvenile court. It having been found that the defendant In the action was not yet 18 years of age. It was stated at the police station that prosecution of dealers who Nil tobacco to minors would continue until such time as the practice was discontinued. discon-tinued. In each case, the dealer sold a single sin-gle package of cigarettes to the ml- nors, it Is stated. oo |