The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-01-08
8 jONESBORO CITIZENS
FINED FOR BOOTLEGG|NG
Lee DrifoOs and C. III. Davis Plaster
ed With $4,000 Fines and
800 Days in Jail.
(From Mondays Daily Press }

Druggists, merchants, capitalists
and holders of stock in out-of-town
saloons all came in for taste of the
laws majesty at Jonesboro late Sat
urday afternoon when Prosecuting
ATTORNEY M. P. Huddleston, assisted
by Fred G.. Mullinix, his deputy, sue
ceeded in planting series of fines
and Jail sentences against C. H. Da-
Wis, Will Knapp and Lee Drifoos at
Jonesboro that were painful to con-
template. The cases were most stub
bornly contested and occupied the
attention of the circuit court during
the greater part of the week
Davis, who is one of Jonesboro's
foremost capitalists, and whose fl
nancial holdings are estimated at
more than one hundred thousand
dollars, stands convicted of bootleg
cling, with cash fines of two thou
sand dollars and three hundred days
in jail as his portion of justice. Da-
Wis, incidentally, owns an interest in
a. saloon at Fisher, Ark, where the
DEVILS brew is passed over the coun-
ter for relief of the sorely distress
ed. The states contention, when it
was established that Davis had been
selling liquor via the back door of
his business house, centered upon
the theory that the said liquor was
shipped from Fisher that it was re-
ceived by Davis or his accredited rep
resentatives, and by them disbursed
to the topers of Jonesboro, of whom
there were some several. 1t was i'm
possible to prove that the liquor act
ually did come from Fisher, but
when the fact was established that
capitalist Davis owned an interest in
the Fisher saloon, jurors evidently
drew a correct opinion and acquiesced
in the contentious of Messrs. Hud-
dleston and Mullinix that nearly a
year in jail and the payment of two
thousand dollars would be good
tonic, and, accordingly, it was order
ed An appeal was taken by attor-
news for Davis, and the cases will be
reviewed by the supreme court. In
the meantime the defendant is out
on bond.
Will Klapp is druggist who has
apparently supplemented the legiti
mate income he was supposed to re-
ceive through his drug business by
a rather luxurious intercourse with
characters of the brothel. Will, ac-
cording to testimony before trial
courts last week in which he was the
chief performer, had formed the hab
it of depending to very large extent
upon the thirsty contingent of Jones'
boro for his bank roll. Briefly, it
was decided that Will sold liquor in
violation of the law. He was adjudg
ed a bootlegger and decorated with
the iron cross of the Gautney type to
the tune of $500 (gold), and $50
days, of the 24-hour variety, in Jail.
Clapp, like the more opulent Davis,
appealed to the gentle mercies of the
supreme court
Lee Drifoos, who is today groan
ing under the weight of two thou
sand dollar fine and a threehundred-
day Jail sentence, was likewise found
guilty of dabbling in forbiddent spir-
it's. Drifoos is a merchant Ca gro
cer) of Jonesboro. He was trapped
after diligent investigation con-
Quoted by the prosecuting attorneys
office and will be permitted to atone
for his moral delinquency, provided
his appeal to the supreme court
bears no fruit.
A most vigorous campaign against
bootlegging has been conducted in
Jonesboro, and, for the first time
since Judge Smith took a fall out of
the bootleggers of that city, offend
ers are beginning to feel that per-
haps, after all, it isn't permanently
profitable to exist upon funds wrung
from the boozing fraternity.
Many of the Arabian peasant pop
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