Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1904 — Gave Liquor To a Drunk Person. [ARTICLE]

Gave Liquor To a Drunk Person.

There is a gang of low down snipeslaronnd here who make a regular praotice of buying liquor for habitual drunkards and other drunken persons, and thus in some oases defeat the efforts, of viotims of the liquor habit to reform themselves and of their friends to help them reform. It has heretofore been almost impossible to conviot any of these wretohes who buy this liquor fox the drunkards, as they are very sly in their work, are always ready to oombine and swear one another out, and worst of all, the men they buy the liquor for always make it a point of honor to swear for their agents, when they are on trial. . One of these liquor buyers for men whom the saloon keepers are forbidden to sell liquor to, has at last been oonvioted. It is a young fellow named Charley Thompson. He is the son of a respected citizen and muoh leniency has heretofore been shown him by the courts in the hopes that he would reform. Some nights ago Fred Irwin, a very bright and promising young man when he can let liquor alone, was on a big bopze and while lying under a tree in the court house yard, too intoxicated to move hardly, Thompson got a pint bottle of whiskey at one of the saloons, and oarried it over and gave it to Fred. He was seen in the aot by C. H. Morlan and J. R. Phillips, from the oourt house, and they went and seonred the bottle, with most of the whisky still in it. Thompson was tried Friday afternoon, before Squire Troxell and a jury, on theoharge of giving liquor to a drunken person. He was found guilty and fined $lO and oosts, or $44 35 in all. He is now in jail and likely to remain there for the next six weeks. Plaques photo frames and moulding at Parkers studio.