New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-27
THE EXCISE LAW ENFORCED.
ITS GENERAL OBSERVANCE LAST SUNDAY.
STATEMENTS OF ACTING CHIEF CoNLIN-cAsEs
- IN TIE COIrRr OLE GENERAL SESSIONS.

STATEMENTS OF ACTING CHIEF CoNLIN-cAsEs
IN THE COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS
Acting Chief ConlIn said yesterday that the ex-
else law was better observed and the saloon more
tightly closed last Sunday than ever before. /
never say anything Ike It in my life," he said. Il
made a tour through the whole West Side, taking
in the Fifteenth the Tenderloin.' Twenty-four:h
and Twenty-siSth precincts and also went through
the Eleventh Twenty-nrst. Twenty-fifth. Twenty
eighth and Twen;y-ninth precincts. on the East
side and must say that such condition of things
never in this city before The saloons were
closed. and there is mistake about II. l passed
considerable time in each precinct. and all along the
line Of the avenues the places were closed with cur
ians up and bar exposed only forty-fre excise
arrests were made The Sunday before the number
WAS seventy-two. 1t is Only a question Of a little
while longer and will have every saloon in the
city closed tight drum on Sunday.
Yesterday was The lghtest day on record In the
Jefferson Market Police Court. there being but
eleven prisoners arraigned before Magistrate Brann
For the first time in year there were no arrests IN
the "Tenderlon District Sunday night, and for the
first time In months none in the Eighth precinct
Magistrate Brann said that he thought the small
number Of prisoners due 10 the fact that the
saloons closed on Sunday.
Recorder Gof had a few more excise cases to
dispose of yesterday in Part of General Sessions
They pleadings and trials for excise violation
that were not acted on last Friday when the big
w
appear and others had pleaded not guilty and had
The men who had not appeared Friday made
their yesterday. They were not all accepted
by the Recorder who tackled on an extra ~ TO the
fine imposed.
Samuel Law. of No 5ss East One-hundred-and
seventeenth-st. pleaded guilty and SAID ne had no
men forced their way through his kitchen into his
saloon where his wife and friend were drinking
u EaSs Of on July the lsi Brewing
possessed him. and he was not going into the pusis
o0afn Ne
had put 500. all the money he had into the busl-
The Recorder sentenced him to five days in the
The Grand Jury yesterday returned four indict,,
ments in cases or excise VIOLATIONS uahaierred
4 trial Of considerable interest was begun before
Recorder Gof yesterday afternoon. IL was that OF
Coumbus-ave.. charged with selling liquor on sun
day without a license. Suchmiller PLEADED not
guilty and asked for a trial. A jury was quickly
Father Ducey, OF ST, Leos, sat on the bench with
the Recorder listening to the trial. The case was
considered somewhat test. and several points
of Interest to lawyers and saloonkeepers were In
volved. a..
way, OF the Twenty-ffth Precinct who testified
that on Sunday. July p, he went into the resian-
OF beer. The defendant brought the glass OF lager
which the policeman drank Afterwards the de-
PENDANT. refused to take any money Tor the Deer
Suchmiller testified that he had been acquainte1
with the policeman for two years. lie dld not SCI
the beer. The steak ordered by Conway was worth
on DISCRIMINATION Policeman Conway said he
was acting on orders from his captain wnen he
Itter being charged by the Recorder the jury
considered the case for half an hour they brought
in verdict dict Of sSy Ta Se
thirty days in the Penitentlary