The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-16
A BAD DAY FOR Liquor MEN.
Mayor McDonoUgh Furnishes Right
and Left for Selling on Sunday.

- BAL LAX EOa LIQUOR MEN.
Mayor McDonoUgh Furnishes Right
and Left for Selling on Sunday.
7. Eichholz was before the mayor yes
terday charged with having his bar open
on Sunday The evidence showed that it
was at least five minutes after 70 O'Clock
Saturday night when the bar closed.
EichhOlz said if it was after II clock he
did not know it, and was innocent Of hav-
ing intentionally offended the law. He
was dismissed with caution TO be more
careful in the future about the time.
Daniel Degnan and Hugh DonOhue, who
run OarrOom on Indian street, near the
Savannah brewery, were charged with
! having their place open last Sunday. Po-
| Hcemau havanaugh made the charge, but
SAID he knew nothing of the matter, eX-
ccpt that he had been informed that
liquor was sold there on Sunday, and he
had a bottle of whisky which was said TO
have come from there, and which had
been turned over to him Sunday night.
The witnesses were G. <. MckinSey and
j. G. Holder. MIR. O'Byrne asked that the
case be continued, as his partner, Mr..
O'COnnor, who attended to these kind of
cases, was out Of town, and he was not
prepared to defend the men.
Mayor McDonough said that he knew
that Mr.. O'Conner attended to the liquor
cases, as he had represented the parties
on trial on previous occasion when they
were up for the same offense, but he re-
fused 10 continue the case Mr.. O'Byrne
then asked who was on trial-MF. Deg
non or Mr. Donohue7 Both" said the
mayor, and they will be fined jointly if
Convicted
Mr. O'Bryne then requested that one
be sequestered while the other gave his
testimony. j. G. Holder was sent out.
McKinseY testified that in company with
Holder and a man named fairfield he
had gone to the front door of Degnans
residence at 9:07 p. m, Sunday. When
they got to the door DonOhue asked Hart
field if the others, meaning Holder aud
himself, were all right, And on being as
sured that both were good boys, they
were admitted to the hallway. They
then walked TO a door on the right of the
hall and entered the barroom. There
they found several men evidently drink
ing. McKinsey said his party had six
glasses Of beer and three cigars at total
cost of As cents, which he and his friend
Holder payed for McKinsey stated that
he then called for half pint of whisky
which he got and paid 20 cents for. This
bottle he turned over to Policeman Kava-
naugh.
On being cross-examined by Mr.
O'Byrue, McKinsey admitted he had
gone to Degnan X Donohue for the pur-
pose of seeing if the place was open. He
also admitted that he was in the employ
of the city as a spy, and that he and
Holder had received 81 each from Kava-
naugh previous to Sunday.
Holder was then brought in and gave
! the same testimony with the exception
of saying he and McKinsey had seen
Kavanaugh Sunday morning, and Nc
Kinsey denied this.
Degnan & Donohue were then allowed
10 fo4 Cd
intire innocence and said they thought it
was put-up job. The case was very
strong one against them and the mayor
fined them 500 or thirty days on the
chain-gang
j. S. Halls was the next Sunday liquor
case. Policeman Kavanaugh had also
made the charge against him, and Nc
Kinsey and H. Reitz ware the witnesses.
McKinsey said he met Reitz Sunday and
asked what the chances Of getting drink
| was and Reitz took 80 cents from him
and went into Halls house and brought
| out half-pint of whisky in a flask and
25 cents in change. Reitz told him he
| bought the whisky from the cook. Reitz
| told a very different story-claimed to
! have only gotten quarter from bcKin-
sey which he went into Halls house with
| for whisky. No one was at home, he
| said, but the cook, who refused to sell
! him anything, put gave him a half pint.
! This he said he gave to McKinsey and re-
| turned his quarter. Clerk Hernandez
! was then sworn to prove that Reitz had
! acknowledged buying the liquor. He was
unwilling TO swear to the fact, but SAID
Reitz had admitted getting the liquor
! The case was continued to give both sides
chance to get more witnesses.
There was a case against William Nc
! Cormack, which was continued, and one
against J. Meyer for selling liquor with
out license, which was also continued.
w. B. Brown was charged with selling
! liquor Sunday. Officer KavanauEh made
the charge and McKinsey was again
called up as a witness. He stated that
he had gone to Browns little after 8
O'Clock Sunday morning and was shown
back into the kitchen, where there was
basket of bottled beer, and he bought and
paid for bottle. He went back at II
O'Clock and bought more beer and some
cigars, all of which he paid for, Brown
was unable to make any satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION of all these circumst ances, and,
as this is an aggravated case, he was
fined 500, condemned to thirty days on
the chain gang and notified that his IL
cense would be revoked. This ended an
interesting session, and moro excitement
| is expected this morning.