The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-12
SALOON MIN DISCHARGED.
HALLIHAN AND HoGLE WIN AN
EASY VICTORY.
Judge Mckay Attacks the Warrants
and the CmIrt Holds With Him
Police Department VIII Continue
It's Fight Against Sunday Liquor
Selling-The Townshend Case.

The Sunday liquor selling question
received another stirring up in the po-
lice court yesterday. Judge Mckay,
in behalf of owen Hogle and Bert
Hallihan, the bartender at Mulvey' s
saloon, objected to the way the war
rants against these men had bean
made out The statutes, he claimed,
made it necessary for a charge to sup-
ulate someone to whom drinks had
been sold in opposition to the law. In
neither of the cases had this ueen
done The judge contended that either
one or the other of the cases must be
radically wrong. as in one instance
the proprietor of a saloon had been
arrested and in the other the bartend-
er had been swooped down upon by
the department. THE charge" he
continued. must be made out against
the man selling the drinks, and there
fore the warrant against Hogle (who
everyone knows, who knows anything,
sells no liquor himselD is imperfect
and wrong and should be dismissed by
the court
Judge Mckay then launched out en-
a broad gauge roast of the whole de-
partment, but the prosecutor inter
posed an objection on the ground of
irrelevancy, and the court kept the
wratlny jurist at bay by ruling him
out of order.
Prosecutor James replied 10 the
judges argument by quoting a long
array of criminal and civil procedure
in an attempt to prove that the in
tention was all that was required IN a
warrant, and that the charges against
Hogle and Hallihan We're in apple pie
order and eminently correct and pro-
n 1t
however, and the charges against the
two defendants were dismissed.
Inc police department, notwithstand-
ing this severe setback. will continue
in its efforts to utterly suppress the sale
OF liquor on Sunday and will pursue
the plan of taking down the names of
all citizens who enter the saloons on
that day, with a view to calling them
as witnesses.
William M. Townshend was tried in
the Justices court yesterday for maxi
ing a punching bag of one Mr. Reese
When the circumstances of the case
became known, it was apparent tfat
it was Townshend who had a griev-
ance and not Reese. Reese admitted
he had gone five miles to Townshend' S
home to find out if the latter had made
some unsavory comments on him.. On
opening the door of his house, the
first thing Townshend saw was Reese,
brandishing a long knife in his hand
and threatening to place it under his
neighbours epidermis. Townshend
thought quickly in this emergency and
acted quickly. His long, sinewy right
swung out from his shoulder and Reese
was only a bundled up and bruised I'M
itation of a man when it landed.
The court discharged Townshend, but
still the Reese family was not salts
fed ReeSe'S DAUGHTER anDroa ched tha
prosecutor when court adjourned and
said she wanted that man Townshend
arrested for ''disgraceful character -
on being told that "disgraceful charac-
ter was an unknown combination in
legal parlance. she made a sudden exit
from the court room, followed by the
rest of the family, including Reese.