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Show JAIL SENTENCE FOR AN EMERY MAKER OF BOOZE JUDOE TILLMAN D. JOHNSON OPPOSED TO FINES. Man Associated With James A. Kad-dls Kad-dls Over Near Huntington Sentenced Sentenc-ed In Federal Court At Zion Last Monday Electrically Operated Still Found In Operation Up At Storrs. Declaring that he is opposed to the t)roHsltion of the government deriving deriv-ing n revenue front illicit distillation of Alcoholic liquors through fines col-eeled col-eeled from eonvieted persons, Judge Tillman D. Johnson of the United State district court At Salt Lake City Inst Monday sentenced Nick Denon to ninety days in tho county jail for making moonshine. The court said that he had adopted n theory Hint tho only way to Mop tho mnniil'iicturo of liquor is through jail sentences. Ho further declared Hint in spite of the pleas of clemency made by both At-sistaut At-sistaut United .Stales District Attorney At-torney Henry I). Moylo nnd Samuel A. King, Attorney for tho defendant, he could do no lew tlinn give Denon ninety iky without 4 ho privilege of paying n fine. i)cnon was nrreatcd Inst Mnreh nnd has been out on Imit since that time, lie was caught operating n Mill in the basement of tt farmhouse in Kmery county. The place whs ostensibly leaned to on Gardner for funning pure, but the federal authorities contend that this whs merely a blind for the oteratltm of the still, wldeb was a large one Mild turned out many gallons of "white mule" day that was being distributed among the t-twl miners of CaHhiu eouuty. It is further furth-er Mllegwl that Denon was in faet merely an employe of Jsmmt A. Had-iUm. Had-iUm. whoiw pa it Also pending. Through nil inlenirelHr Denon told the court tlmt he bad a family of four, lie is about -tfi yeors of age slid formerly for-merly workeil as n cwl miner. |