Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1914 — TOO OLD TO WORK OUT FINE [ARTICLE]

TOO OLD TO WORK OUT FINE

Offender Against Prohibition Law May Bpend Life in Jail in Kansas Town. Topeka. Kan. —Without means to pay the S6OO fine against him and physically unable to work it out on the rock pile as provided by the city ‘ordinance, H. B. Hollowell, the seveuty-two-year-old veteran of the-Civil war, convicted in police court last summer for selling a pint of whisky, seems doomed to life confinement Under the city law all prisoners who refuse to pay or work their fines out on the rock pile shall be put In solitary confinement on a diet of bread and water. That would limit Hallowell to on© article of food. Hallowell was refused a parole by the police judge some time ago.