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Show JUDGE fill 1100 FOR KEEPING WHISKEY FEARING PROHIBITION, HE LAY IN A SUPPLY FOR FUTURE. Five Barrels Consigned i.o "Henry Smith" Seized by Chief of Police, pound to Be. Property of Judge. Newman, Ga., Feb. 13. Judge W. B. Dent, United States . commissioner, was found guilty in the city court 1 here yesterday on a charge of keeping whiskey for sale and was lined 5100. Five barrels of whiskey consigned to "Henry Smith, Newman," were seized seiz-ed by the chief of police, who discov red that Smith was none other than Judge ' Dent, and a warrant was immediately im-mediately Issued for tho commissioner. Judge Dent admitted that the taste for whiskey was in him, and explained explain-ed to the court that, being an old man. t accustomed to his toddy, he feared the prohibition movement now sweeping sweep-ing the country would deprive him of hls usual drink, whereupon he decided j to lay' in a supply for the iuture. |