BOOTLEGGED TO KEEP
CHILDREN FROM WANT
ATLANTA. Ga., Nov. 26.—Boot
legging became a necessary evil for
pretty Mrs. L. Smith, 23-year-old
mother of two children, she told
Judge Calhoun in city court Monday.
Mrs. Smith wan arrested when the
police found a number of pints of
whisky in her apartment and a large
number of gallon cans of "corn’’ in
her garage.
"I could not work,” was Mrs.
Smith's plea. “I saw myself in want
and stood it for a time, but when 1
saw that my children were suffering
1 had to do something-. I turned to
selling liquor.”
The human element was too stfong
for the court. He reserved his de
cision until Tuesday.
NEW YORK’S CRIME
WAVE CONTINUES
Three Store Hold-Ups And
Three Safe Robberies One
Day's Record
NEW YORK. Nov. 26.—Three store
holdups and three safe robberies to
day were added to the deficit column
of the police attempt to wipe from
the city’s crime ledger a pre-holiday
wave of holdups and robberies, which
has continued sporadically for more
than a fortnight.
Arrests were made in seven recent
crime cases, clues were followed in
two week-end murders, and one man
began a 20 years to life imprison
ment jail term for wife slaying.
The holdup today of a United Cigar
store in West 125th street was the
most daring robbery since the hold
up and murder in Brooklyn on No
vember 14 of two west end bank
messengers who were robbed of Sto,
607.
Two well-dresed men. entering the
store, forced the clerk through a
trap door to the cellar. One bandi:
accompanied him. Another remained
in the store and successively forced
four customers, one by one, to the
cellar where the confederate robbed
them of their money and jewelry.
