The evening world., 1894-06-08
ARTEACA HAD
NO LICENSE.

"Who was the Captain"
II didn't know his name. but i, he was
2 big, thickset man with 5 pack mus
tas Ma sna T Y Can't pig Sf ais%9nd
II didn't ask his name"
II told him wanted a license to run
my concert hall, and he said he could
] must see his ward man, Wagner. Then
About two days afterwards Wagner
come out 10 INTO p the street ae We had
conversation. Wagner said I could open
the concert-hall II I would pay for 1t,
ana t toid him me n could not pay S much. but
could give him $50 a month.
That's all right he said; you can
and began giving concerts In my place.
A few days afterwards Wagner came
around again and | saw him in the hall;
shook s hands Il ] slipped the money into
Was any one else present."
"Oh, no; Wagner took care OF that"
Arteaga said he paid no more money
70 Wagner. who came into his place
frsS ysn G;,U With t,o the e, captain.
Because 1 could not make a1v
s.roIIey n the business. ] told Wagner
that, and he said I must close up This
T ;pe a. aSout two months after I paid him
did he say anything about selling
Eyes; Wagner said 1t would be best
for me to sell out SO man came around
next day and l made n bargain with
him. His name was Warren, Lewis;
He took possession Immediately, and
the next day the concert-hall was open
and running in full blast again"
You had license to sell liquor|'
'Oh, yes
DO you know whether Lewis got a
concert license?"
II know he didn't"
Arteaga said the concert hall was run
by Lewis till last January, when his
He was tried at Special Sessions and
acquitted on the testimony of Capt.
Price.
for violating the Excise law before he
opened his concert hall. He was taken
to the station and was told he could go
free II he would pay the sergeant somc
AZ didn't pay, so they locked ME up in
On s-examination Artega said he
money In the Cuban war of 1868 He had
been in the grocery, tobacco and liquor
business at different times.
young woman, with short, curly hair,
was the next witness. She said she had
formerly kept cafe. with girl walters,
At "a Sixth street, and before that at
Where do you live now?" asked Mr.
Moss. - -, -,
have gone back to my work in store
little boy six years old to support"
Mrs Walters said that, while she was
Man Hook came to her and said she
from a Mrs Ritter, and sold wine, beer
and liquors without license.
cause Mrs. Ritter told me what she
paid. All did was to give the money
to Hook when he came in; Nothing
into any trouble. paid Hook all the
time was in Fourth street and after l
was in Sixth street. and kept open till
There was great excitement among
the cafe keepers when the police came
around and told them that they must
close up
Says She Paid Hook.
.You always paid Hock?"
Yes. Sometimes he came to my house
and other times he would send a stool
pigeon, and tell me to meet him near
the FIT avenue station. At the house
lope. but at the station 1 simply gave
\ the money in bills
witness said the stool;,pigeon was
aft wards kept a cafe. but who got into
dist .vof and he had to go to Newark.
What was done to this MANI"
his place was raided twice in a week. "
'Why?"
because he didn't settle up, / suppose
THAT was what every one said"
The witness said that she didn't think
she was doing anything wrong in run
ming a cafe, as she had no rooms in con-
nection with her place. The girls only
waited on the tables.
In some cafes there were lounges and
Tor these the witness said the monthly
charge was $40.
Did you think the Captain could give
ycr permission to sell liquor without a
hcense?" asked Senator Bradley.
Certainly. II l paid for it," said the
~" Did you ever keep a disorderly
house?"
mo. SIR"
The. witness said she had to close up
her place last Winter and had gone back
to work again.
The next witness proved to be an in
teresting one. He was Morris Jacobs, a
tailor, OF 1877 Third avenue Mr.. Jacobs
said he had been in the Twenty fifth
Assembly District about eight years,
and had been member of the Tam
many Hall General Committee.
Jacobs began his testimony by saying
that since he received a subpoena from
the Committee, Policeman Finnerty ant
and Fourth street station, had tried t.
t0tmidate him and prevent him from
So9tifying before the Committee.
as Says He Was Threatened.