The Archive · 1925

13,000 Gals. of Wine Destroyed

I believe it was in 1917 that I witnessed one of the large opium bonfires at Pootung that the history books of the future will tell the young of the next Chinese genet got rid of Chin menace. At that time I remember that I unconsciously rebelled against such waste of good stuff, good, only if properly used. Similarly, this hot and thirsty day T read that no less than 13,000 gals. of very zood wine is to be destroyed, which Will set precedent in the enforcement of the national prohibition act, said wine being at the present moment stored in the bonded warehouse at Calistoga (famous among cther things for RIS, reference to it) and again I rebel agathst. waste of good drink, After deliberating for four and a half hours, the jury in the case, which was held at Sacramento (the capital city of California state) proceedings filed me by Gerald H.. Johnson, assistant United States attorney." Destruction of the Kind of © criminal; the last one! depicts in silhouette a terrible march through the gloom towards the death chair at Sing Sing prison. In order, however, that decent law-abiding members of society and children shall not suffer from continuous nightmare about these shadowy "cops," a series of advertisement announcements are run simultaneously depicting the handsomer members of the police force performing rescues at fires, on the edge of lakes and sea.

To offset the criticism of the press, Collier has announced that his campaign shall not cost New York a nickel, for he will stand the racket of initial costs.

report comes simultaneously from Chisago, the place of crime with a record' above all other U.S. cities, that only by tion of the criminal classes can problems be stamped out. The psychopathic laboratory of the Chicago Municipal Court emphasizes that its investiga! tions show crime to be a disease with its, tendencies inherited and vintage was protested by defence counsel, who contended that dis-\triet courts were without authority to order its destruction. The day of the trial was @ particularly hot tone in a particular hot place, for Sacramento can get much hotter than Shanghai, and all people in the courts, from the judge to the caretaker, are reported to have lost control of their lower jaws to such an extent that whenever the fine wine was mentioned their tongues hung out "quite a ways," and they all similarly suffered from a torture ling thirst. However, none of them could get a drink of the wine, and 's0 the ease dragged its weary length' until the decision was reached. And this decision is sake to be of such Jimport as to have far-reaching effect in prohibition enforcement, for it is the first of its kind ever returned by a jury in federal court.

The owner of the bonded winery alleged to have admitted the sale of a Inrge quantity of the wine to federal agents, selling the wine to pay off a mortgage on his ranch. its cure subject to a "breeding out of the strain from the human stock."

Inherited emotions in a. large measure are responsible, for: crime, Crime is seen in a social defeat He was not a popular man in the trial, but the most distinctly up popaler: Person was. G. H. Johnson, the assistant U. attorney—or 30 tthe reports have it.

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