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FINED $4,000 And COSTS.
<ImOn White Of RichfOrd Convicted of
Illegal Selling of Iiquor-lins APP
pcaIcd to supreme Court.

s. Adams. March c5-Swlft justice was
metcd out to .Almon Whit" indicted for
granddaughter and selling without author
ity, in what arc known as the Richiord
wood alcohol cases, when the jury, be-
fore which he has been on trial for selling,
brought in a verdict yesterday att"rnoo1
Of guilty of four oftcnsos. White was at
one sentenced by Judge Munson 20 pay
u fine OF s. Ql0 and costs, a total % about
3 80. or the alternate sentence IN tho
House of Correction of three days for
every dollar. This would make Whites
IMPRISONMENT IT, he failed 70 pay, about
l. years.
states Attorney Warren +. Austin ask
ed to have the respondents bail increased
from Sos, To 1000. and this was ordered
by Judge Munson, Colonel Han of tn" re-
spondcnt's counsel, becoming surety Tor
the additional amOnt. Tho case VIII he
taken To the supreme court on cNc0rtlonS'
Court opened promptly at eight O'Clock
| and respondents counsel offered in oNI-
dcnco extracts from the transcript oi
| testimony Eivcn h"for" Justice OF IN"
Peace Arthur Mckinney at the rr"llm-
mary hearing. These extracts were OF
statements ncvc mad" by the states VII
iuosscs differing from tn" testimony 81 tH'
| same witnesses given in court, and was
offered as bearing upon the crcdIb'litN OF
the witnesses in question. with this Offer
Iboth sides rested.
| Whites counsel thorcupon moved fo'
Ia verdict of acquiltal to nc directed ny
1.-The court upon the ground that there
lis no evidence in the case tCdinG Il
show that tho respondent between in,
lnrst day Of June and the :2dn of NoVem
liner. sold or furnished amy ntoXica .ne
lliouor as charged in the indictments con
ltrarv to law: and because there Is nc
Iovidcnco in tho case tending TO show tina
Inc WAS not. during that time, and durln-
the dates testified 10 by the several WIZ
ntsscs. acting as the agent OF one dul,
and regularly licensed under the Laws o
this state"
The motion was ovorrulcd and Ju"S
lNIuu.on directed tho arguments TO De
Gin. Thcrcupon. states Attorney war
rem Il. Austin made tho opening pr'Sen
ltation of the case to the jury, io'low'
lby \. T.. Rowlcy and Col. Alfred y. tai
for the defence. At ".l1 O'Clock Ni'N'
8 Gen. Clarke G. Fits began the cloSin
5 argumout for the prosecution, ana nan a
? hour thereafter Judge Munson submiUe
the case to tho jury.
The only element of the charge dit
3 fcrinE from the ordinary charges i
, criminal cases, consisted of tn" IN
J struction that no matter by what nam
| | the liquor was sold If in fact II Wa
1t Intoxicating liquor, il would he IN
duty Of the jury to return verdict q
5 guilty. and also 10 specify the mum
her Of offences, if any, of which tn
: respondent was guilty.
c At two o'clock in the afternoon tn
. Jury came into court with a verdict q
= guilty" The clerk inquired "Of hoy
!. many offences" and the foreman r.
= piled -four
{ states Attorney Warren r. Aust
o then moved for sentence and the coul
after hearing counsel upon the mat
= ter, imposed sentence that the rcspor
d dent pay a fine of 5000 for each OF
fence, making $4,000 in all and cost
: of prosecution, and to stand commit
{ ted until paid, with the altcruati\
t sentence of three days impriSonmol
in the House OF Correction for even