Imperial Valley press., 1909-04-17
Breaking Up Business of Ped ding Liquor Prescriptions
 Un the Streets.
Jury Finds Physician Guilty of violat- ing Ordinance By Selling Order For Whiskey to Healthest Man Tn Fl centro-5ooze Case That Was Not a Farce.

A violator of the liquor ordinance, caught by the City Marshal and pros ecuted by the City Attorney, was tried before a jury in Recorder Ravens court last Wednesday, and convicted without the assistance of excited re- formers or special counsel The en- tire business of obtaining jury and sub hitting the case was concluded early in the afternoon, and the jury found a verdict of guilty in a few moments. On the jury were several citizens, classed as short hairs" who had been excluded from the jury box in the Heil case by peremptory challenge.
 The prosecution trial and verdict constitute a complete answer to the raucous howl that El Centro cannot be trusted to deal with violators of her ordinances and must be re formed" by outside busybodies and frantic editors. There was no farce comedy in the court room.
 Dr. B. Mcintyre, who has been do- ing a land office business in liquor prescriptions, was the defendant. He was his own attorney Marshal Brad ford testified that he saw Mcintyre write liquor prescription for l.. w. Hollis, while standing upon the side walk, and that Hollis made no com plaint of illness and was not ques- toned by Mcintyre. The prescrip- tion was for a quart of whiskey. Hol- lis paid two bits for it. Bradford. said he knew no healthier, more TO- bust man than Hollis in El Centro
 Hollis testified with evident reluc- tance to make trouble for the doe tor He substantiated the testimony of Bradford, but saidN he had a cold for three or four months Mcintyre tried to induce him to remember that he had mentioned the cold when he asked for the prescription, but Bill wouldn't swear to that. It came out that Hollis gave the quart of whiskey to the Marshal, but two or three days later he remembered his cold, de-, manded and obtained the liquor, and with the help of two or three friends disposed of the medicine" and evil dence.
 Mcintyre refused to take the stand in his own behalf, but managed to get in his story under the guise of an argument to the jury, which the City Attorney smilingly tolerated Mcintyre professed to be an advocate of strict temperance and an enemy to the Demon Run,' and he told touch ing tales of his benevolence to vic tins of the drink habit He said he had one patient who needed whiskey to ward off delirium, but when he gave a prescription to the patients wife to enable her to get quart of the sovereign remedy for colds and jim jams, druggist Dunaway refused to fill it and said he wasn't selling whis- key The woman then obtained a prescription from Dr. McCombs and Dunaway filled it promptly McIR- tyre obviously was grieved by Duna- ways discrimination
 Mcintyre contended, against tAS- city attorneys opinion, that whiskey is good medicine for cold even if the patient is a steady thinker, and he graVely informed the jury that he had observed an epidemic of colds iR
 Gl Centro during che past month or so.
 The city attorney told the jury that he was not vindictive toward Mcintyre and did not want him pun ished, but he insisted on putting Il stop to McIntyre's business of stand ing on street corners and peddling quart prescriptions for whiskey at two bits each
 The jury found Mcintyre guilty and recommended him to the mercy of the court
 Sentence has been deferred to April 30 Dr. Mcintyre announces that he will leave Fl Centro-says he wouldn't live in such a town. Ills property is for sale.