Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — Selling Liquor from a Prison Cell. [ARTICLE]

Selling Liquor from a Prison Cell.

During the progress of a religious revival at Norton, Kan., lately, John Stone was arrested and sent to jail for selling liquor illegally. Stone's cell was in the rear of the building, and the window was screened from public view by a grain crib. He had not been there long before it was found he was selling liquor from this window to a a thirsty and impatient crowd. When Stone was asked how he got hold of his supply of liquors he stated that his good wife had an eye to business, and each visit from her brought to him, for retail purposes, from, one to three bottles, which she secreted in her pocket or under her skirts. Stone was reluctant about giving up the trade, for, he said, he was doing fairly well, was paying no rent and receiving his board free from the town.

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