Iowa
Old Press
Sioux City Journal, November 10, 1923
ON HONEYMOON IN COUNTY JAIL
Must Serve Terms for Moonshining—Married Thursday.
Married on Thursday, Ove Cates and Nellie La France Dingman must spend their honeymoon in the county jail.
Following their pleas of guilty in federal court to charges of manufacturing moonshine liquor, Judge George C. Scott sentenced them to 60 days each in the county jail, and also fined them $100 apiece.
The charge against them grew out of a raid on their shack on the shores of Brown’s Lake by state and federal officers on August 28, 1922, the raid resulting in the discovery of a still in operation, four gallons of whisky and 50 gallons of mash.
The couple, after procuring the marriage license from the Clerk of the Woodbury county district court, went before Carl W. H. Sass, justice of the peace, who performed the marriage ceremony.
This is the second time the two have been compelled to serve terms in the county jail on liquor charges, they having previously served jail sentences imposed by the state court.
[transcribed by L.Z. Jun 2020]