Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — Sixty Cents’ Worth of Whisky. [ARTICLE]

Sixty Cents’ Worth of Whisky.

Bonham (Texas) News. Sixty cents invested in whisky in the year 1869 cost Fannin County, in time and money, more than the revenue arising from the whisky Iraffio for five years amounted to. We speak of the investment made by young Dean. He shot Dan. Coulter and poor Dan, passed into the spirit land, Then the McDonalds shot and killed Dean. For this offense they were arrested, and continuing the case several times, were tried and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to the Penitentiary. Whileln jail they were rescued by their /riends breaking open the jail and liberating them. Taking it altogether this sixty cents’ worth of whisky killed two men, made one widow, caused two men to be incarcerated and kept in jail at an enormous expense to Fannin County, and caused trouble to the families and friends of those two men, and then the expense of witnesses and trials in Court, with losses of time to the Sheriff and posse, put Fannin County to the expense of not less than SIO,OOO, and that is just about the usual per cent, whisky pays, and pays it in the same way.