Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — ROSELAWN DRUGGIST FINED AT KENTLAND [ARTICLE]

ROSELAWN DRUGGIST FINED AT KENTLAND

Ten Dollars and Costs on One Charge HThlle Others Are Said to Have Been Dismissed. J: W. Crooks, the Roselawn druggist, was fined $lO and costs at Kent•land Monday on a charge of illegal sale of liquor. It is understood that the other indictments against him were dismissed. Some time ago the temperance people of Roselawn procured the services of a detective and he furnished the evidence that resulted in the indictments. The detective is in the employ of the Anti-Saloon League and was accompanied to Roselawn by his wife. Both were to have been witnesses for the state but the woman was recently burned to death. She was cleaning a pair of gloves with gasoline at her home in Indianapolis when the gasoline ignited and she was so badly burned that death resulted. Her death is said to have weakened the case of the state. That there is widespread violation of the druggist liquor law in small places is generally considered. The act tolerates the sale should be repealed and would have been at the last legislature if the majority of the members had not been pledged to the liquorcratic bosses of the democratic party. A $lO fine is a small penalty for the indiscriminate sale of whisky covering two or three years. On the way back to Roselawn aftei the trial the automobile containing Mrs. Crooks and son, Mrs. D. K. Frye and John Parker; was overturned and all of the occupants more or less injured, while the little Crooks boy, 7 years of age, suffered a fractured leg, the flesh being frightfully lacerated and the bone *so badly crushed that he was taken to a Chicago hospital for treatment. Mrs. Frye was cut about the face and hands and was unconscious for several hours and Mr. Parker also suffered severe bruises and cuts.