The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-06
One Man is Sent 70
eral Prison for oil
Years.
BABY PICTURE.
is Settled When Man
Guilty and Pays
Fine Of $50.

t&u44Ly. gE4utAS u ioA4AefA 49,
ttrict court to charges Of VIOLATING
Internal revenue laws by seli'as
whisky and IKE liquors Without
ernment licenses. and Judge
Dayton fined and sentenced them
follows:
stella Douglas, James Harris.
George Jones, William Swan, poete
Litton, william Hatcher, George NOR
gan and Bob Graham were lined l00s
each and sentenced to serve thirty
days each in the Preston county jan.
william Russell was hned 5000 and
sentenced to serve sixty days in thu
same Jail for a like oRense, ne
was acquitted Of another IKE charge.
Robert Page and waiter DFumnloniI
drew like penalties for like otfensea
and were committed to the berkeley
county Jail.
Pet Hornet and George 1EcCpll-
ough were fined 500 each and sem
fenced to serve thirty days each in
the Randolph county Jail.
James Jenkins and Guy Cross also
pleaded guilty to charges Of boot
Logging and were fined $500 each
and sentenced to serve thirty days
each in. the Harrison county jail.
Ray Smith, Michael Doyle snd
Henry Johnson will be put on trial
on like charges as all three pleaded
not guilty.
The case of NJ. o. Fuller, accused Z
of violating postal laws, was con-
tinued until the next term.
Prosecution was dropped An the
case OF. Toder Tuna. accused Of send
ing obscene matter through the mall.
An appeal from a confirmation Of
sale by the referee in the bankruptcy
case against B. G. Williams, Of FAIR
mont. was submitted and argued.
John Hooker was placed on trial
Friday afternoon on charge Of
'rbootIegEing' whisley Sunday,
August G, at Moundsvtlle and teh
case was given to the jury at
O'Clock.
In tho case OF Albert Jones, Judge
Dayton announced that as 1t was the
second oNense the fine and imprison-
ment would be greater than for the
first ofTeuse and that IL he came be-
fore him again on similar charge,
he would send him to the penitends
airy. He was fined $500 and given
ninety days in the Beverly jail
In Toder Tuma's case, which az
stated was dropped, it appeaTs that
Tuna, a young Bohemian, residing in
wheeling wrote an obscure letter for
another man and directed It to the
editor OF newspaper in Cleveland,
o., but Tuna did not mail It. AS the
offenee consisted IN mailing tho lee
ter, the government held that Tuna
was not guilty, and he was according
ly discharged from custody. Accord
ing to Tuua's story he IS secretary
of a Bohemian secret society, which
makes 1t practice to send out OBJ
scene letters to mark its displeasuFe.
Before the seIf-conFessed men were
taken uot of the court room to jail
Judge Dayton warned them that u
they ever appeared before him again
on similar charges, the penalty would
be far more severe. ~
The case of Mike Scott, charged
with white slave trafic, was trans
ferred to the Philippi docket.
A son Of J. E. Martin, Of Parkers-
burg. married against the Wishes Of
his parents and they would have
nothing TO do with his wife. The
stork brought baby and latter the
mother of the sons wife thinking to
reconcile the sons parents mailed
them a picture Of the baby, This 30
enraged Martin that he mailed an
obscene reply. He pleaded guilty
before Judge A. C. Dayton at this
term and the latter fined him $50 and
costs.
The grand jury before hnaI adj
tournament late Thursday afternoon
returned In it's big batch Of tndict-
ments ono against Mike Scott alias
Mike sarneUia, In which he Is accused
OF white slave traffic, in that 10
transpoftad Della vertress In the
month 81 September from either
youngstown. o., or BeIlaire, O., to
resort Ia Wheeling, g. violation 90 the
te dEnInagce laws 81 the ms
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