BELIEVED 10 YEARS WOULD DO.
Opium User Asked Long Sentence So He Might Be Cured.
Charles Lewis, who forged a check, yesterday asked to be sent to the penitentiary.
"For ten years I have been a user of opium and I believe a prison sentence would cure me of the habit," he told Judge R. S. Latshaw in the criminal court.
Lewis was given five years, the minimum penalty. With good behavior he will finish his time in three years and three months.
