Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1909 — George Timberlake, of Bloomington, Goes to Jail For Thirty Days. [ARTICLE]

George Timberlake, of Bloomington, Goes to Jail For Thirty Days.

Probably a good many Rensselaer people know or know of George Timberlake, who formerly conducted a cigar store across the street from the Lahr house at Lafayette. George had financial troubles at Lafayette, having lost about $7,000 on a horse race tip given him by a supposed friend. He had borrowed a lot of money and could not pay his creditors and blew clear out. He went to Bloomington with $25 and started a cigar store in a little out of the way place, but he was an interesting 'fellow and attracted trade. He soon had a little money and moved to better quarters and added a pool room to his enlarged cigar business. Prosperity seemed to be carrying him at high tide until a grand jury got after him and found indictments that resulted in his conviction for selling liquor under the “blind tiger” act. He sold “Egyptian hop malt,” which he alleged to be a non-intoxicant, but analysis proved it to be a 4 per cent alcholic drink of the highest type beer test. A jury found him guilty and he was fined SSO and sentenced to 30 days in jail. He made a desperate effort to avert the jail sentence but his attorneys were unsuccessful in getting a new trial and he entered upon his sentehce Wednesday. Tlmberlake had become one of the. leading society men at Bloomington and his incarceration is ape to result in a cessation us the lionizing attitude of Bloomington.