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HOWARD AND MITCHELL FOUND GUILTY AND FINED Jack Howard owner and trainer and Charles F Mitchell Negro Howards stable foreman charged with doping a race horse a year ago at Arlington Park race track were found guilty today of violating the Harrison narcotic law lawHoward Howard was fined 500 and Mitchell 50 by Federal Judge Sullivan who heard the case without a jury juryThe The two men were charged specifically with administering heroin to Louie Dear one of Howards horses horsesThe The cases of eight other defendants on the same charge were continued until the fall term of court courtHoward Howard and Mitchell based their defense on the plea that they had given the horses nothing but medicine prescribed by a vet ¬ erinarian erinarianCapt Capt William F Waugh counsel for How ¬ ard announced he would appeal the case
