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Show flN SIN JAIL SENTENCE Easy Money and Hard Liquor Proves Disastrous Combination Easy money and hard liquor this combination resulted disastrously for Mrs Minnie Johnson of Butte, self-confessed self-confessed bootlejfger. who this morning morn-ing faced tho City court charged with having liquor in her possession-GIVEN possession-GIVEN tit) 1 S After hearing her story Judge L. J. Holther Imposed a sentence of sixty days In the city jail, or the alternative alterna-tive of a fine of $25U. She has no funds, she said. Mrs. Johnson s.ild she was employed as janltreaa at hotels and pool rboms In Butte She heard of "easy money ' which was being made by bootlegging-Experiencing bootlegging-Experiencing difficulty in maintaining maintain-ing her four children on her earnings as a scrub woman, she claimed to have saved sufficient money to embark em-bark upon a bootlegging enterprise GETS THE LIQ1 nit She went to Lima, Mont., and met a man who had ten bottles of Canadian club whisky. The whisky, she said, CCSt her eighty dollars. Mrs. Johnson went to Blackfoot. Po-catcllo. Po-catcllo. Brigham and finally to g-d g-d ii In an effort to dispose of her Whisky. She attempted to sell the liquor to bellhops ln hotels, according Jo her testimony. I Mrs. Johnson registered at a local hotel, she said, and telephoned to a bellhop in another hotel to b-.-irn If he wanted to purchase liquor. The "hell-hop "hell-hop did not wish to enter such a transaction- The officers recefvpd information from Brigham City regarding the woman, and her arrest on a charge 'of having liquor in her possession took placo near the corner of Twenty-fifth stree; and Washington avenue. PLEADS FOR lENIEN'Cl i Mrs. Johnson pleaded with the judge for leniency, stating that she. had her Children to support She admitted that she had come to Ogden with the ln-lentlon ln-lentlon of bootlegging, ami said that sb- would have probabb repeated the trip, had It been successful. |