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JJfc rThe rest each got $4 and costs. Other 18 were rounded up in basement under A. Von Lippin's saloon, 2058 W. Division street. Harry Robertson, 110 Ann st, keeper, fined $50 and costs. .Others, $4 and costs. o o COUPLE GET LIFE TERM Judge Going, on the bench at Clark street court, varied the monotony of "$10 and costs" with a life sentence this morning. The recipients asked for the long term. They were John J. Walsh and Anna jNagel, both of whom are from New York. They wanted to be married. Court was ad journed while the judge retired to his chambers to tie the knot. "Walsh has been working as a bookkeeper in Chicago for three months. Miss Nagel came from New York a week ago to visit her aunt, Mrs. La Jourie, 1457 E. 55th street. She and Yoipg Walsh had planned the marriage for months. ' According to attaches of the court, it was the first marriage celebrated in the second precinct station since it moved into the new building on Clark street. After performing the marriage ceremony Judge Going returned to the bench and find a wife beater $25. AGED WQMAN DRUGGED. According to a report at the Polk street station this morning, a woman about 50 years old was drugged and robbed of a sum of money by two Pullman porters on a Grand Trunk train which ar rived in Chicago from Montreal this morning. Station Agent Carroll denied the woman was drugged, but ad mitted a woman was taken from the train in an intoxicated condi tion. In the matron's room, where it'was said the woman was being kept, all inquiries were re ferred to Station Agent Carroll. o o $5,000 GOES UP IN SMOKE Were you one of the many loop shoppers today who were won dering what the funny odor was? If you were, you know what an odor about $5,000 worth of opium makes. Ninety-eight boxes, valued at that amount and sold for about $200,000, were' burned in the furnace of the Federal bldg., this morning. The boxes containing the opium came to this country as boxes of tea, sacks of rice and other receptacles. It has all been confiscated by federal authorities. o o WOMAN SHOOTS LAWYER. New York, Aug. 19. District Attorney .Alfred C. Fachs of the borough of Richmond, Staten Island, was shot and seriously, wounded by Mrs. Elizabeth Ed munds as he entered his office to day. f Mrs. Edmunds was arrested. She said she was the wife of a New York physician, that'she had retained Fachs as counsel in a property dispute and did .not like the way he had handled the case. II 1 il l4-i;r.'rtforfr