Court Sentences Drunks, Post-Graduate Work for One

Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1908

BILL HICKS WAS DRUNK WHEN HE TOOK THE TWO RAZORS

Judge Read the Riot Act to Old Timer — The City Court.

"I got nothin' to say only I wouldn't a-done it if I hadn't been drunk," was the only excuse Bill Hicks had to offer Judge Skelton in the city court this morning where he was arraigned for stealing Ben F. McAtee's barber tools after the owner had taken a "stand off" for a hair cut.

"Trouble with you, Bill, you are always drunk," said the judge, "and that's no excuse. I'll just give you five and costs and sixty days for this and when you get out you want to be pretty careful or you'll go back and serve that four months' suspended sentence I've got pickled for you."

Bill had nothing to say. The razors were recovered and the owner got them back, while Bill was marched to his cell preparatory to seventy-five days in jail.

Just Some Drunks.

William McGuire, from up north, got all tangled up about the trolley cars yesterday and when the Toledo and Chicago was tied up he kept asking questions and sandwiching drinks between his visits to the ticket window. Finally he got along to a point where he wanted to run the road and about that time Patrolman Elliott landed him. He drew $1 and costs.

Frank Trunnell was the name of a much-befogged individual picked up near Huntertown yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Hughes. He didn't seem to know just where he was "at" and he got eleven days to straighten him out.

William Timmons, who has been for several days taking a course of treatment at Sheriff Grice's delirium tremens cure, was fined $5 and costs so as to give him a chance to take post graduate course. He had been on a big spree and was seeing things.

—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, October 3, 1908, page 2.