The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-11-17
Prohibition Papers
Filled with Crime
"DTy" Staie Couyes Busy
ccieh Liquor Gases

Prohibition ogitators picture Kan
sas as the Angel State.
But Kansas papers II. their news
colt rs show that prohibition has
not AZ, reased crime nor It's sordid-
ness aud has Increased certain Of
fenses - that st.te.
1haa The Topeka Jour; > reported
the ct for the Septen.A term OF
Grim :. Court:
90 = l66 criminal - docketed
for tie '.tember Term e ne Shaw
nee Coar District Cour'. % are 20,
violation : the prohi, ~ liquor
law. Nine ,ther cases for statu-
tory osfenses, and six ter assault,
hand r.sidans O. the iiG,sts business.
"Exe # saiaTies the Off
GERS g rhs conft, cogl attacnos
figur, .aas Il ,nii cost he ,dnty so
each : the liquor eases Co. TO trlai.
But E. is rot liAely tnag -nore tnan
one-tenth of them viii cv-l cause the
legal machinery TO revolye. Accord
ing to Robert Carver, first assistant
county attorney, only about one
liq.,or case in ten gets to the trial
stage. The rest are dismissed, Car
yer said. The county has chance to
get the expense Of the trial back
through assessing the costs against
the defendant in case o. conviction.
But in the April term, but four con-
victed liquor dealers paid the costs.
The rest elected to stay in jail and
await a parole.
"Forty-six of the defendants docb-
eted to appear Tor trial for infrae-
tions Of the prohi5itory iisu5r l.w are
women, according to the dociTst. Sev-
eral Of the defendants apDear - more
than one case"
The prevalence of crime II n
nessee is merely tinte3 ct III 80 r
tial work Of the grand jury 1epor =
In the Chattanooga Meas as follows ::
"Containing three murder indict-
ments and twenty true bills fer al
legged sellers of liquor, another report
has been made by the grand jury, and
still another is expected Wednesday
afternoon. The expected report,
which, in fact, has already been
passed on by the jury and is now IN
the Attorney Generals hands, will
add three more murder charges and
practically winds up the work of the
jury along this line.
"In the early jury report there are
nine indictments for burglary, four
teen for larceny and other true bills,
besides the whisky cases, making a
total Of fifty-five indictments. The
second report will embrace ten alleged
liquor sellers"
Here's how prohibition succeeds in
improving morals in Washington:
"Hoquiam, Sept. Ga report by
Police Judge Martin Smith, filed yes
terday with Clerk Lundin, shows that
the bulk Of business in police court
during August was the result OF
over-indulgence in liquor.
"Eleven defendants arraigned or
the charge of drunkenness, two fol
having an Illegal quantity of liquor il
their possession ard three for fightin q
Indulgence in liquor figured in tho
case of the bellieerents. In addition
one was arraigned for exceeding tn,
speed limit and two for disorderi3
conduct"
And the following news dispatche.
tell their own story about West Vlr
ginia:
"Clarksburg, W. Va, Sept. Co.
United States Deputy Marshais from
Philippi and MartinSbug have beer
busy rounding up alleged bootlegger.
here. Thir. ,en have been arrested il
the last tventy-four hours, and the
marsha!s are still at work"
"Martinsburg. ". Va, Sept. 21.-
Sidney Rymer, former prosecuting at
torney of Lewis county. w. Va, ant
candidate in 1906 for the West Vir
ginia Senate, today pleaded guilty il
the Federal Court here to the charg,
of bootlegging in Clarksburg, w. Va.
and was sentenced to four months il
Jail and Sl00 fine.
"Eleven men entered pleas of guilt,
today before Judge Dayton to charge
Of bootlegging, and were given term
in Jail and fines of 500 each"
Huntington, w. Va, Sept. %. =
George Church, marshal of Bar
louisville, ten miles from here, wa
shot and killed today By a gang o
bootleggers he was trying to arrest
Church was formerly a police lieu
tenant here"
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