News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-14

The President Ofthe Herald and Globe
Association Gives His Experience.

was P. w. Clement. Here is his evidence in
FULL
@. The Herald and Globe association, the
defendant in this suit, is corporation, is it
notP A. Yes.
Q. And are you the president of that as
ISOLATION? A. Yes.
@. And the principal stakeholder? A.
Yes, the largest stakeholder.
Q. What position does Mr.. Perkins occupy?
A. Mr.. Perkins is the editorial and business
manager.
Q. Have you been at various times guest
at the Van Ness house. A. Yes.
@. And whether you have been served
there with intoxicating liquor. A. | have.
Q. wish you would state as nearly as
possible the occasions, what you were
served with, where you paid for it. A. 1
can remember of an occasion a good many
years ago.
Q. want to contine your attention to the
hotel since Gov. Woodbury. became the pro-
prietor, If you know whether he was or
wasn't at that time. A. This was In 'S4 or
80; believe he was proprietor at that time.
1t was an occasion when | was returning
from the first-one of the first hearings in
the trial-taX suit-between the Rutland
railroad and the Central Vermont returning
from st. Adams, and l stopped at the Van
Ness house for dinner, and at that time | or
dered in the dining room bottle Of Bass ale
and that was served with the dinner.
@. Before l leave that occasion-when you
ordered the ale, what, If anything, was said
as to the procuring of it. A. l ordered it of
the servant girl, the waitress, and she spoke
to the head waiter. The head waiter came to
me and / gave the order again to him. He
sent out of the room and got the ale and
brought it In there and served it. There was
nothing said about it.
@. That is what wish to know. Where
did you pay for that A. paid at the office
when paid for my dinner.
@. Proceed to the next occasion. A. An
other occasion-I can't tell whether it was
the next occasion-was on an OCCASION when
had a room over the old dining room, and
at that time | had some cocktails served in
the room. ordered them in the usual way.
The bell boy brought them up, and cannot
remember about that payment. presume
may have paid him; | don't know. Another
occasion / came here with party Of ladies
and gentlemen on visit of day to the city.
We were served with wine in the
dining room and that was paid for
at the office. That was ordered in the same
way, ordered through the head waiter and 1t
was brought in and served to us. On
another occasion, / came here in the evening
and had supper here with one of the physi-
clans Iwho lectured at the medical college
anu sDlIt VI MS We Hhtl WIut
served on that occasion that paid for at the
office. On another OCCASION the time that
my brOther-in-law was graduated, think in
1888, at the medical school here, | came here
and we had bottle Of champagne served in
my room. That was paid for at the office, as
remember 1t. | don't remember of paying
i think l didn't pay-in the room, but l
am not positive about that. On another
occasion, we had meeting of the directors
- ,-aftr t,,f In anrIpp nff ba
house. and after the meeting we had some
cocktails served in the parlor. Now, those
are all of the occasions that | can-that
| have been able to remember to specify.
@. Now, what, If anything, was said to
you upon any of these occasions by the
party of whom you ordered the liquor as to
the necessity of sending out of the house for
1t, or what, If anything was said about it.
| A. Never was anything said about It.
@. Simply took your order and brought
the liquor. A. Simply took my order and
brought the liquor.
@. And what, if any, difference did you
| observe between the service upon these oc-
casions in this hotel and the hotels In other
places upon similar orders. A, | could see
no difference.
Cross-examination by Mr.. FOSTER
| @. The first occasion to which you re.
ferred, understood you to say was in 1884
or 1885. A. Yes, think so.
| O. Can you be more definite as to the
| time, as TO the season of the year, for in
stance. A. l could be definite, think, as tc
the day, by looking up our records to see
| when this hearing took place. | know
Judge Barrett was with me at the time.
| O. | am only getting at as nearly as you
can, now. A. cannot now be more specific
than to say / think It was IN 'S4 or 'S5.
@. Have you any recollection as to thC
season of the year. A. 1t was not In the
winter time.
O. You were registered at the hotel. A.
| think so, yes.
@. Did you say Judge Barrett was will
you. A. He was with me, James Barrett.
@. And he was doubtless registered also
| A. | think so, yes | presume so.
| O. And you have given me all the inf0r
nation you can as to when 1t occurred
A. Yes.
o. You speak Of something that woult
help you, have you any such help In town
A. l have nothing here, no; but can de
termlne just-very likely the very day tina
that was.
@. VIII you do so, please. A. will
certainly.
@. You then referred to another time, per
haps not the next time, when you had som,
cocktails served you in a room over the OLE
dining room. A. Yes.
1 W. thU you ttll us hDOuI NDtH lllhI WIS
A. can't tell when that was; have beef
unable to fix the date for It; 1t was my Gus
tom
q. Never mind your custom, just answe
the question. Can you be any more definite
than that,-than you have been already as 4
when 1t occurred. A. No, | can't be an.
more definite.
O. You know suppose, It wasn't In 1895
A. IL wasn't In '95; II was good many year
ago, should think 10 years ago; II Is alon
among the earlier occasions.
O. on that occasion, were you registered
A. Yes, undoubtedly.
@. How many did you say were In you
party. A. At that Time as | remember II,
think there were two persons with me-
three Of us.
@. And the cocktails were brought up o
waiter, in glasses, lssuppose. A. Yes.
q. You then referred to u time when yo
. were served with wine In the dining room
Can you tell us when that WASP A. Their
were two Of those occasions that referre
to there.
@. am taking them up In the order
j which you mentioned them, This time Co
Dillingham; says you had some ladies an
gentlemen with your A. That was probabl
In $50 or 'S7.
O. IL that rs definite as you can be?
THAT n as de6nlte az ! can determine that.
q. You do not now recall the seasoh Of u
year2 A. 1t was In the summer time.
@. You then spoke OF time WHEN you ha
4 ,,4ith % o..