Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1907 — Gallagher Wasn’t Let Go. [ARTICLE]

Gallagher Wasn’t Let Go.

Charles Gallaghei, a ditcher who lives three milts south of town, cane in Saturday, in a lrame of mind to ‘ Let’er go Gallagher,” hiving a good sized jag that was a product of Wolcott booze. He first distinguish himself by running into and upsetting some vehicle at a feed barn. He later concluded that the Wolcott brand of jag had not the lasting qualities he desired, so in the forenoon he procured a piut thru the Mount Ayr semi daily booze line, and he then fell back on the Rensselaer purely medical variety, getting a quart at the Long drug store, on a prescription from Dr. Miller. In the afternoon he varied the monotony a little by getting another quart out of t-ie same ba. rel but with a prescription from Dr. Merrill. In the evening, after several ineffectual attempts to persuade him t« leave and go home, it became necessary to ruu him in, and it was done by Marshal Parks aud Policeman Zea, and they both had their work cut out for them to handle him.

He remained in jail over night and Sunday morning was taken bitore Squire Irwin, and he thought Gallagher had let’er go enough that he could afford to pay tor his amusement, and not be let go any more. So he made it 15 and costs, amounting in all to $12.50. He had had too much fun to have enough money left to pay the whole amount, neing $7 shy, but this he borrowed at the store where he got his medicine, and the riquire then did let Gallagher go. Gallagher obtained the prescription of Dr. Miller by stating that he wanted it for his old mother, for a tonic, and declared he never drank anything, himself. The Doctor states that the prescription he gave only called for a pint, tho Gallagher testified it was a quart, but perhaps it tasted as good as a quart to him.