Man Drinks Painkiller, Fined $5 and Costs

1920

Remedy Containing 65 Per Cent Alcohol Proves a "Dazer"

ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 25. -- Go easy on the rheumatism medicine.

That is the advice of Allen McKay of this city. McKay was arrested on Ninth street in a seemingly dazed condition. A policeman said he appeared to be intoxicated. He was called before Judge Mix next morning.

"It was rheumatism medicine," he told the judge. "It contained 65 per cent alcohol, but I didn't know that when I drank a bottle of it."

"Did it cure your rheumatism?" the court asked.

"It killed the pain."

"Five dollars and costs."

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 1.