The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-08
ALCOHOL AND BURNED SUGAR.

The Medicine hat waycrossers Use
to Taper Il Gee Zee" With
Waycross is a dry town, and there is so
much difficulty 70 get fire-Water there that
people Of bibulous tendency are some
times Put to great straits TO get a drink,
wits are racEed 70 get hold Of bottle OF
red liquor, and sometimes the Joys are MT
particular whe her il is whisky that they
get, If they can find an approximate sub
stitute
An investigation before United States
Commissi mes Gillespie yesterday brought
out facts which justify the fore
going opinions. VI. NJ Mitchell, a
colored porter for E. R. Goodrich,
Waycross dru glst, was before the
commissl ner on the charge of retailing
liquor without having paid the special
revenue tax, and after examining three
witness for the gosernment, and taking
the statement of the defend MT, he minis
sioner continued case until c'cl ok this
afternoon, TO get ma erial witness for the
government befOre him, and to give
Mitchell q cha &c to have his employer to
tes ifs in MS behalf
{. II. GRAY, the prosecuting witness,
testified thai he was tapering off from a
drunk. ard had gone t Mi cheIl alb nut Sept.
l7or Is, and b iught quart of whisky, pay
ing him 81 for it. After that, in day or
two, he bought a gu irt Of alcohol from
Mitchell, paying him 40 cents for it, and
shortly after-it appears TO nave bean the
same druuk-he ug t a iother quart of
WHISKY, W ich he did not pay for, but PROM
ised to do so, and iitch-li replied, That's
all right" and CONVENE I'll set the bottle of
whisky here Gray could get it.
w. A Schoeppe, clerk in bakery
adjoining the drug store, knew that Gray
b ug The isky, and the witness said
that ne drank me Of it. He recognized
sample on the commissioners desk as re en-
bli < that bought by Gray from Mitchell,
the witness having seen, through the win
dow, Gray ge ting the whisky. Heard
Gray afrerward tell Mitchell that he would
pay r it, aid also heard Mitchell say ''ali
light"
b. R. johnson testified to having drunk
some of the alcoh which Gray told him
he had bought of Mitchell
The prisoners statement was to the effect
that q ay came to him and b, eyed him to
let him have some alcohol, as he was try
! to get off If a gee-gee,'" and was will
ing TO give 81 for drink. Mitchell id
that he told Gray he was afraid he would
get into trouble, buC Gray urged him to
let him have some alcohol. as he was sick
and Mrs. Gray was sick, and no
trouble woul come of it. Mitchell let him
have part of bottle of alcohol, ana didn't
' want to take any pay, but Gray insisted
d gave him 81. and afterward paid him
40 cents for a smaller amount, but for
another larger bottle Of alcohol obtained
on G avs second visit he paid nothi &.
| The bottle was sitting on a table in the
yard, and Gray reached through the fenc,
and carried it c Fl du' ing Mitchell's absence
Mitchell de led ever having let Gray have
whisky, and said it wa always cohol from
a private store that Mr.. Go 'drich had
given Mitchell, and that no whisky nor
alcohol was retaIled BY Mr.. Goodrich.
TIE defend mt when asked TO Tell how tn Q
sample of liquor on Commissioner Gille4-
pies table, VIII ch Gray swore had been
ught from Mitchell, was given the c Jlor
OF whisky. While denying that the alcohol
sold Gray was colored, the defendant said
it could be given that color by using burned
white sugar. Mitchell tasted the sample,
made wry face, and said Gray had no /,
obta ned any such tasting liquor from him.
After the examination had been con-
ciu led, Gray, tOa doRNING NE VS. reporter,
asked that the explanation be made that he
had not volunteered to prosecute Mitchell
he said he wouldn't have done 50, but Way
cross is dry town, aid he peopl, Of
Wayoross had found out about his eating
whisky from Mitchell, and made him own
up to it, and when thus O. ifrontei he
thought the best plan to pursue was to state
all the facts, and avoid trouble. All the
wit esses are white people who had some
IT the alcohol and burned sugar, TIE best 10
be had in a dry to n, as he prohibitions 8
keeJ up keel watch for vi ,lations of the
temperance laws, and swoopei down Oh
Gray as sool as the last bottle of alcohol
began to get in Its wo X.