The daily gazette., 1881-06-22
SECOND EDITION
A SIMPLE TRICK.
An Alleged Exposure OF Sunday
Liquor Selling AdMi itted 10 be

An Alleged Exposure OF Sunday
Liquor selling Adnitted 10 be
Hoax.
Mondays issue Of Epery Esening
contained long item, purportiUg to be
an exposure, by one Of It's reporters, of
large amount of Illegal liquor selling
practised in this city the day before.
The article represented that the report
er, desiring to know tie extent of the
illegal Sunday Liquor traffic, made
round of number of saloons on Sum
day evening, and Without d fficulty
succeeded in gaining admission and
buying all the beer be wanted. The
saloons were almost accurately describ-
cd by locations aud it was further alleged
that members of City Coancil, "a mem-
Der of the Board Of Education, "a pr0m-
inent city physician agd two city poll
ticians' were seen drinking at the vari-
ous places visited.
The article was generally believed, and
created quite sensation us an legged
exposure >of q number OF prominent
dealers. The prevailing feeling, however,
was one of supreme disg ust, not only al
the pusillanimons meanness of man
who would prove himself such low
priced hound as to deliberately buy liquor
on Sunday for the sole purpose OF in
forming OH the seller, but that any new 8
paper should display such an utter lack
of dscency as to make itself responsible Q
for this despicable trick.
Now, however, the whole story is ad-
mitted to be lying hoax. Bailiff Brady,
who would be held responsible by the
Court for such wholesale vic Iation OF
the Sunday liquor law, determined at
| once to Investigate the charges, and
bring the guilty parties up for punish
| ment His drst move was TO summon
the writer, lad named Henry McIn-
tyre, and inform him that charges
would be brought against the parties
| implicated In his article and that he
would he req Hired to COME for ward and
sustain his allegations under oath.
Then the smart youth saw the trap
| W hich he ad laid for himself, aud into
| winch the equally smart news paper had
pushed him. He had liad, aud he knew
il, but could not bring himself to the
point OF swearing to his lies. Ii Q there
| tore made a clean breast, and admitted
/ that the whole article was string oil
bald-:acsd lies, and at the Bailitf's re-
quest made oath that his newspaper
statement was "a hoax, made for sensa
tional purposes, and chat he did not
! visit any drinking saloonsin Wiltnington
op Sunday evening""
| Henry W. Mcintyre, the brilliant
crlbbler, who has thus distinguished
himself In an exploit which fairly out
rivals the most deprAved attempts of th'
mythical tom Pepper" Is a youth Of
/ about nineteen summers, who Eecent Is
stepped from the confines of the Boys
High School, into the office Of leadi ny
city attorney, az studeut>at-law. Il,
Gently b. has been possessed of an itch.
ing desire TO figure In nawspaper wor x
aud his cacoethes scribendi has beeT
gratifiad on all possib Die occasions by
the Every Evening. The conductors OF
that journat dec are they were conDletsf
| imposed upon by his latest effoit, bu
they endorsed it as the work OF ona Q
their own representatives, gave it con
spicnous place In lheir local colum ns, an,
thereby approved what they could no
help knowing was, If true. the work e
despica bIespy and iDformer.
Among the places designated In tn,
batch of wilful lies thus NO ompletell
exploded was saloon at Maryland
Avenue and Adams street, recent,
kept by J. Matthew Gropp. Mr.. Gropp'
application for license was refused a
he last term of court, whereupon he i'm
msdiately closed his sa loon and has no
sold drop of liquor since,
John Dougherty, of the United State
Hotel, and I. B. Merritt, OF the Euro
pean House, were also much annoyed
because aIother OF the places alleged t
have been visited Sunday evening wa
said to be "withis a stones throw c
the p, W. g. B. II. r. depot"
Raiiff Brady still entertsins the opin
ionthat the new liquor law, patticularl
the portion in relsJion to Sunday sci
ing, Is being strictly observed by th
dealers.
A portion of the arliclU was c,pie
from the Every Euening into the Repul
iican of yesterday.