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

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lew words. | said | was going away. 81
think Mr.. Drew used me little cold" and
Mr.. Drew had never done anything in the
world to me, only / had 50 many friends
among the commercial travellers, and also
That had not held up his place of business
as barroom, but that | thought | could
make dollar for myself and he objected to
q. Are you telling now some interview
you mad with Gov. Woodbury. A. Only |
lew words had with him at one time, and
when l got through Mr.. Woodbury. said;
"keally l cannot say anything about it. |
cannon say nut what you conducted yourself |
ana are smart enough and have been very
good young man here indeed"
Q. Did Gov. Woodbury. ever tell Won any,
thing.while you were there about vour connec-
ZION with this service to guests of intoxicat-
ing beverages; did he ever tell Won anytbingy
A. Gov. Woodbury. has been at times at lie
counter when would come up and ask for
Mr.. Clark and ask MIR. Clark to give me the |
money, Tor such one wanted half pint of /
whiskey or bottle of beer, and heard him |
turn and say, "Who is that forY,
@. Well, | don't know whether Won can
state definitely how frequently Mr.. Wood |
bury visited the hotel, and how freoupntIv he |
was at the hotel during these periods? A, |
Most of the time he was there: he generally
got down in the morning and then would |
stop on his way up in the afternoon; some |
times he would be there at the noon hour.
he had no regular hour, but mostly he was
there In the morning and nights.
q. After supper in the evening? A. Yes,
he would remain sometimes until even 9
sometimes going home and coming back from
his residence.
Q. DO you know some of the clerks of
whom you purchased liquor for guests at the
hotel who worked for these drug stores? A.
I Dt 1No1.
has been so many changes that | could not
exactly recall the names, but am sure there
are some of them there now.
q. What do you say about the clerks at
Fay Tafts store: do you recollect with any
certainty who the clerks were there that
you had liquor of? A, Yes. at Mr.. Tafts,
many a time, from Doc Carpenter or George
La FOuntaine, and red-headed fellow there,
| don't remember his name; he was in the
employment there for quite while at Taft's
drug store, tall fellow: he tried to buy
that place of Will Mccarthy at one time,
John Cook.
Q. Does he live in Burlington now? A. /
cannot say; his father died | heard little
while ago.
@. Did you deal with him? A. did.
Q. To any considerable extent, that Is,
was he in that drug store employment for
quite while? A. He was.
Q. Mr.. lSham of whom you spoke, is he
clerk in the postofiice now in Burlington
A. | cannot say whether he is at the present
time.
| @. BY way of conveniences for furnishing
| such entertainment, was the hotel equipped
with wine glasses, ale glasses and liquor
| glasses? A. We had regular wine glasses
| sometimes the glasses were not exactly for
that special occasion on which they were
used, but we had champagne glasses in the
| house, and we had beer glasses in the house.
q. During your whole time of service
there did any one in the management of the
hotel ever caution you about furnishing
| liquor to the guests or forbid you to do it;
A. ! never got forbidden from any one from
headquarters whatsoever. 1t has always
been agreeable; | took my authority from
Mr.. Drew and from Mr.. Clark; | was only
cautioned by Mr. Clark that | ought to be
| careful.
O. Now, with reference to the entertain.
ment of these parties, did it ever happen, il
so, how frequently, that Mr.. clark himself
was member of the party who was enter
tanned by you with those Intoxicating bever
ages? A. Yes, sir.
@. Iufrequently or frequently? A. Quite
frequently.
@. On those occasions how was the com.
pensaton for the Intoxicating beverages pro-
| vided? A. There was not any objection to
my getting ahead If it was after hours.
@. To your getting ahead, what do you
mean by that? A. The supply.
Q. You mean providing a supply in ad.
vance? A. | told him | could not get any
at certain hours afterwards, and that | would
have to get some in ahead, and he never oh.
jected to my doing so.
Cross-examinaton by Mr.. Foster:-
Q. Do you know how long you worked
there while Mr.. Bowman was in the employ
ment of the house? A. l worked right
through. / believe he was there two years.
o. Two years? A. Yes, sir.
| q. And | suppose that there was no par
ticular change in the matter of your furnish.
ing the guests with liquor during that time
after he left? A. No change; Mr.. Bowman
was stricter than Mr.. Drew was.
@. But still you had full opportunity
practically you had the same opportunity to
supply the guests with liquor under Mr..
Bowman that you had after he left when you
were under Mr.. Drew? A. Not as FIRE.
quently as would Mr.. Drew.
Q. But Mr. Bowman of course saw YOU
frequently bringing it in! a. Yes. sir.
@. And during the time that you were EN-
plOyed at the Van Ness house, aside from
this quantity of liquor that you state you
have taken over sometimes so as to have ii
on hand after hours, there was no liquor OF
any kind kept at the Van Ness house, was
there? A. Only in this light; on Sunday
afternoons we used to bring it.
@. Who? A. brought it and the other
bows would bring it.
Q. Leaving out what you say the other
bell boys brought over from Drew's or had
on hand, was there any Intoxicating liquor
kept at the Van Ness house? A. Only what
myself have kept there.
Q. say aside from what you have al
ready told US you have done, and what you
have told us that Mr.. Drew brought some
over once or twice, and what you had, and
what the other boys brought in. was there
any other Intoxicating liquor kept there? A.
l am sure that Newton Stewart kept many a
bottle there.
Q. Did you see him keep 1t there? A.
Newton Stewart, a colored man, they called
him Newt, that is his first name.
@. Where did he keep 1t! A. He used
to keep it at times in his closets.
@. Where were his cosetsY A. On these
way down stairs.
Q. What was Newton Stewards business
A. AS hall boy and also, mostly, assistant
porter of Mr.. Mccarthy.
Q. He is a colored man, is he? A. He is q
COlOred man.
@. And where were his closets, you say
A. On the way down stairs; down to thu
billiard room.
@. From the office? A. From the office.
Q. And what do you say he keptY A. He
used to keep pints and half pints.
@. OF what? A. OF whiskey, and l have
seen him go out and get it.
@. Where did you see him get it? A. He
has told me he has got 1t across the road al
the American.
@. Where have you seen him get IL? A
At the American house.
@, In Mr.. Drew's barroom? Yes, many s
time.
@. What other Intoxicating liquor, If any
was kept at the Van Ness house, that you
know Of? A. The beer.
Q. Who kept that? A. He kept 1t.
Q. And who else? A. | could say nothing
more than whiskey beer and once In a Whit
1t would be claret, butt was mostly whlskey
beer and Bass ale.
@. Kept by Newton Stewart? A. Yes
Newton and myself had more freedom, a,
we were the Oldest employees there.
Q. And Newton Stewart kept II In the
same way as you kept ity A. Yes, for his
own interest the same as myself.
| @. The house had no interest In what YOU
had? A. They knew that we kept 1t.
Q. The house had no interest In what you
kept, did 1t? A. The house had no interest
no, sir; | could not say that.
@. And they had no interest In what you
knew of Newton Stewards keepingy A
That / cannot say.
@. You speak about Mr.. Clark being enter.
I a.