The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-18
offered to sell. give away or

there nobody offered TO sell. give away or
drink liquor
The officer then detailed his course over
the beat last Sunday, and said he had an
even thirty saloons in the district. The
saloons generally are open at the early
morning hours in order that they may be
rants they keep closed as a rule, and any
one can look through the drawn curtains
and see that the places are deserted.
Have you ever heard anyone in police
authority say 10 you or intimate TO you
that there, was TO be any lsniency shown
liquor dealers who violate the law was
asked by a commissioner.
81 never have. Some of the saloon, keep
ers have talked with me about a change,
but told them my orders were as strict
Are you as vigilant. as you were six
months ago to enforce observance OF wv
II think 1 am. My purpose is to do my
full duty, and 1 have never been complained
rs there any reason" asked the Mayor,
why there are less arrests for liquor vio-
lations than there were several months
ago."
"None that 1 know of, except that it is
harder to catch the violators than it was
them"
He said that he had watched CONGRESS
Hall last Sunday. and had been in it a half
dozen times. There was nothing going on
then to make him believe that fne pro,
duty about the saloon. He was WE'VE
times In Jacobs's saloon. because Jacobss
inspected PAT Wards place, but Pat was
sly last Sunday in his selling, If he sold
anything. He said he had twenty-four sa-
looms to watch, and had paid especial at
tention to them, having received very rlgor-
Gus orders that selling on SUNDAY must pc
stopped. He said that from his orders he
knew of no change in the policy of enforce
ment of the liquor laws.
Patrolman Kruger, who runs on the North
Side district, relates that he had Kept a
strict watch upon the saloons in his dis
trict and that the only place Where ne hau
trouble was at Olendorfs, on North illinois
street. He spent a great part of the day
there because 1t was a restaurant saloon
and required watching. Captain. Campbell
Which + bep thew eve did. Captain Campbell was
called and stated that the only place among
the roadhouses where there was selling last
pike. He had found things in full blast
there about 3 D. m, but could not make
a case. He had left two men there to pre-
serve the law. He was asked Gould the
party which made the Sunday trip have
succeeded so we'll If their purpose had been
known"
'.They could have just as easily" he an
swered. 'have broken into as many stores
as got liquor as they did If they had been
known. / have talked with some of the
men arrested. and they told me that Hager-
dorm was known to them, and that they
supposed the people with him were all
right. One told me he was more careful
no body in that he did not know"
Have you ever had word q from {Sa ANYBODY
In authority or lnl1uence thdl the NlSoTOuS
policy was no longer to preyail?'
81 never have. Ii is becoming more strict
every day. The observance of law is better
every day, and the records of the Police
Court will show it. Last Mondays court
had the lightest docket it has had for years
on Monday. Sunday, under our present pol
icy. is the hardest working day of the
week"
The board dismissed the officers and
then decided to employ twenty men IN or
der that the laws may be enforced. They
will be selected as far as possible from
the eligible list and are to report to the
board Friday night for inspection. The
Mayor seized the opportunity during the
evening to inquire If there is any gambling
going on in the city and was told that
there are no professional games in vogue
here. Joseph Robinson had made such a
appear last night and testify had said that
his physician told him he was III danger
from heart disease and would not let him
go out at night.