Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-13
DETECTIVES PROFITS
Seven Speak-Easy Finders Held for
Trial for Conspiracy.
SOME ALDERMEN ARE IMPLICATED.
How Illegal Liquor Cases Are Prosecuted
by Licensed Agents.
JUSTICES S25-IN-THE-SLOT MACHINE.

There was some startling testimony sworn
to in the prosecution of the Bauder detect.
ives yesterday as to certain inventions
whereby defendants might drop SIS in the
slot of Justices machine and get injustice
out of it at 4:30 P. M. the case of the
Commonwealth against the Bauder and
Doyle Detective Agency came before AL
derman j. B. Hyndman at the East Liberty
Police Station, on Frankstown avenue. The
defendants-against whom warrants had
been issued severally and collectively
wereJ. B. Bowder, james Doyle, L. j.
Bender, George Kelly, f. D. Stoner. h.
Brockett, John Doherty. Dominic Gala
CHER and William Nagel. The charge was
one of conspiracy to obtain money Illegally.
Attorney John Marron appeared for the
Commonwealth; Maj. Montooth for Gala
CHER; Attorney J. M. Rourke and L. P.
Stone, respectively, for Doyle and Doherty.
The remainder of the defendants represented
themselves.
John j. Arnodt, of 155 Frankstown
avenue, deposed that defendants, Gala
CHER and Doyle, came to his house about
the middle of last July, and Doyle read a
warrant against him for selling liquor with
out license. Doyle then asked him if he
could get bail for $3, 600, and he said he
could, and, making an excuse about getting
his shoes, slipped
OUT BY THE BACK DOOR,
and got off to Ohio, whence heoniy returned
a few days since. The warrant was signed
by Squire Maneese. The day of the occur
renee was Monday. Doyle told him the
hearing was to be on Thursday. In his ab-
sence, Victor Miller, friend, kindly took
his case in hand and went to Maneese's Of
fee. Mrs. Arnodt gave Miller $50 to settle.
He felt he could not get bail for s., 900, SO
he concluded to skip. They kept on sitting
in his house for two hours, and after that
Doyle went all over the premises.
Mrs. Arnodt corroborated her husbands
evidence, adding that Gallagher told her
she was prosecuted by the Commonwealth.
She did not know who or what the Common
wealth was.
Victor Miller, the next witness, testified
that Mrs. Arnodt gave him $50 I'd 60 to
Squire Maneese's office and settle the case,
If possible. He saw defendant Bauder at
the 'Squire's, and, knowing Bauder was
mixed up with the case, offered to settle it
with him. Bauder told him everything
could be settled for SIS and 50 costs. They
then went to the back Office and he paid
Bauder S34. just then the Squire came in
and Bauder gave the Squire 30. Bauder
never told him what the fine was for, and at
first be wanted to make it $50, but reduced
it to S25, as ''the people were poor" He
never saw any information against the Ar
nodts', but merely helped them out of kind
ness He saw Gallagher at Maneese's Office.
There was no hearing of the case whatever.
P, Dunn saw Doyle and Gallagher 60 into
Arnodt's house on the day mentioned.
CoRRoBoRATIvE AND CUMULATIVE.
Mrs. j. Davis, of Forbes street, was next
sworn. She said she had been sued for
selling liquor without license. Defendant
Doyle brought her the warrant. which was
signed by Alderman D. r. Callen, of 309
Beaver avenue, Allegheny. She went to
the 'squire's office day or two after. with
Doyle, and again shortly afterward. The
Squire, defendants Doyle and Bauder and
lady named Coyle. Before she had
hearing, Bauder called her aside and told
her he could settle the case. They then
went into the room at the back, and Bauder
said she could get off for $25. The Squire
then came in and told her to "shove some
money under the settee," adding that he
''often found money enough there to pay
for his beer" She dropped a dollar under
the settee, and they went into the front
Office. Bauder and Doyle then swore to the
Squire that they had four witnesses against
her, but could not produce them just then.
Bauder also swcre that she was summoned
on information received by him for selling
liquor illegally. He told her he could not
find it in his heart to send lady to Jail;
SO he would let her off for s25. She heard
of no costs, except what the Squire told her
to "drop under the settee."
Asked with regard to what bail she had
rendered for her appearance, it turned out
that it was ''straw," although nominally set
down as $1,000.
NO SLOT IN THIS CASE. :.
Mrs. Kate Coyle, of 51S Second avenue,
identified Doyle and Bauder, and had been
sued bv him to appear at Alderman Cass-
idy's Office on Third avenue. and went there
with Doyle. Doyle took her from there to
Lawyer G. E. Moore's, on Fifth avenue,
and from there to Alderman Callen's. At
Callen's she saw, besides the Squire,
Bauder and others. The Squire told her
there were five witnesses against her; that
she was arraigned under the Act of '55, and
that it was impossible for her to get out of
it. He then told her to plead guilty, and
she did so. They then informed her that
the fine inflicted was $50 and $3.50 costs.
She paid Callen 1880 at the time, and SUBJ
sequently, on her second visit to his Office,
Liz tba rapnaipipo Gba
told to drop any money in the "slot." The
Squire gave her a receipt in full, which
she produced in court.
The neJt witness, Peter Butterhoff, de-
posed that he was sued by defendant Ben
der for selling liquor illegally. The war
rant was signed by Squire Cassidy, but he
was never brought to Cassidy's office. He
was taken to Squire Doughty's on Penn
avenue to get bail, and while there he set
tied the case with the Squire and Bauder.
The Squire told him to hand over SIS, and
he handed over that sum. Didn't know
who got the money subsequently,; but was
quite certain that he saw none OF it. No
witnesses were even alluded to at Squire
Doughty's. Witness then produced
document written by Squire Doughty, and
running as follows:
A QUEER DOCUMENT.
l. ]. Bender, hereby promise and agree to
make no further charges against Peter
Butterhoff for illegal selling of drink, or for
any other offense, during the period of my
life LAURA BENDER (Sic).
Drawn up and Endorsed in my presence and
in my Office. w. ID. DOUGHTY.
Mrs. Barbara Butterhoff, wife Of the pre-
ceding witness, corroborated her husbands
evidence; adding that Squire Doughty
brought the document just quoted to their
house, in person. He told them that the
S75 was for defendant, Bender, who was
witness against them, and tor 'his COM