JURYMEN GAOLED
Week-end Spree While Sitting CHICAGO, April 25. Judge Epstein iu the Criminal Court held the entire jury guilty of contempt. He sentenced eleven to gaol and fined the twelfth fifty dollars. The jury acquitted an ex-court clerk on a charge of embezzlement after a week-end deliberation which 'they spent touring the taverns, drinJung beer and entertaining saloon hostesscs. Five of the jurors were sentenced to five days each due to drinking and dancing, six to rhree days for drinking only, while the twelfth just went aiong. The baliff was sentenced to six months' gaol.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 84, 26 April 1937, Page 8
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