Evening star., 1918-07-20
B0OTLEGGER GETS
THE FULL PENALTY
James Page, "Worst Of the
Illegal Dealers" Given
Two Years.
IS MONTHS FOR ANOTHER

The maximum penalty Of two years'
Imprisonment was imposed on James
Page. colored, $40 p street northwest.
by Judge Hardison in Police Court
this morning when convicted Of illegal
1y selling liquor. Charles Stewart. coll
ored, also was given q penalty Of
eighteen months for the same ofsense.
Lieut.. Pierson and Sergt Shssts Of
the second precinct. who arrested
Page. declared that he was the most
notorious bootlegger in the, precinct.
The negro had been released from oc-
coquan only. a few months. where he
served a sentence Of four months' i'm
prisonment on the same charge.
Page was arrested Wednesday night
in Wards alley soon after he had
his goods on the street by
accosting prospective buyers and ask
your throatT Page accosted one Of
the police agents on the night of his
arrest and asked him the same ques-
ton. The police informer inquired as
cut his throat. and Page replied: DO
you want any whisky?"
Pleads Guilty.
When arraigned before Judge Hardi-
SON this morning Page pleaded guilty.
In sentencing hiEn the Judge stated
that man who has once been con-
victed on the same charge should hnd
some different kind of work to en-
gage in.
Stewart.also was convicted last win
ter on charge of bootleggiug and
was later put on probation. His
parole expired several days before
The convicted bootlegeer was ar
rested last night by the 'liquor
squad" of the tenth precinct. led by
Sergt. ]. W. Mccormack. It was
charged that he sold two half pints
of whisky to two police agents. When
arraigned in court Stewart entered o
plea of not guilty.
Says Police Sold to Her.
Louise Stewart. wife of the con-
victed bootlegger, testified that the
police informers sold her the whisky
which she mixed with glycerin as q
ever. testified that the colored woman
came home yesterday morning with
suit case so full of whisky that she
had to send for help to get it to the
house.
When arraigned before Judge Har-
oiSon on cnafe0 OF driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated and speeding
John L. Lee. colored. entered q plea Of
not guilty and demanded q jury trial.
The case was set to be tried next
Thursday.
Lee was arrested early this morning
on Pennsylvania avenue by Policeman
H. A. CLANCY of the first precinct,
and 1t fs charged that he was driving
a machine at a speed Of twenty-five
miles an hour. The police say that
ten persons were In the machine and
two. in addition to Lee, were intoxi-
Gated. Lee was a government witness
in the Stewart case, and testified that
tho liquor he had bought from the
convicted liquor vender made kim
drunk.
A sentence Of three months inn
prisonment was imposed on John
Hudson Butler. colored, when con-
victed of bootlegging in Judge Hardi-
sons court yesterday afternoon.
When arraigned in court Butler
pleaded guilty to the offense.
Frank Hall. colored, also was given
a sentence of three months' imprison-
ment by Judge Hardison yesterday
afternoon when convicted on the
same charge. Hall was arrested in
a near-beer saloon in Southeast
Washington. known as the "Old Hole
in the WALL" by Sergt. o. T. Davis
Of the NTH precinct.