Athens Messenger, Athens, Ohio November 15, 1928

MAN SENT TO JAIL FOR TERM

J.C. Myers Ends Sentence at Atlanta and Gets Another.

COLUMBUS. NOV 14 (U.P.)
J. C. Myers. former Gallipolis commission merchant, was remanded to the Gallia County jail today to serve out a $500 fine imposed on charges of conspiring to violate the liquor laws.
Myers just completed serving a sentence in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta on the same charge. He was sentenced here January 21,with Paul Cagot, Cleveland, who also was fined.
Cagot was remanded to the Licking County jail to serve out his fine.
Both Myers and Cagot were accorded shortened sentences at Atlanta for good behavior.

The Zanesville Signal, Zanesville Ohio, 24 December 1928

COSHOCTON MAN IS GIVEN FREEDOM
Paul Cagot, Cashocton, was released from the Licking county jail recently by means of proceedings instituted in U.S. Commissioner F.F. Frazir's office here.
He secured his release under the poor convict statute. Seized and convicted in Franklin county on a liquor conspiracy Cagot was
sentenced to six months and to pay a fine of $500, servitude to be in the Licking county jail. On his application for hearing Cagot was brought here and released on his representations of being a poor convict unable to settle his fine of $500. Detective Frank Abel of this city acted as deputy in bringing the prisoner here on account of the illness of U.S. Deputy Marshall W. Harvey Garrett of South Fourth Street.

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Virginia Porter
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