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

only people that drink wine at their meals,
q. And those people are pretty well of, Al
least they spend considerable money! A.
don't know anything about that.
q. They have enough so they can afford Il
drink winel A. They pay their bills, that's
all know.
Q. Always pay your A. Never paid me
| for any wine.
Q. These 20 instances that spread them
selves over three years are not the cases OF
touristsf A. They were some. yes.
Q. Some Of these tourists have paid you
L sent out and got IL; they didn't pay me for
| any wine.
Q. They gave you the money and you sent
| oul and got the wineY A. Yes, sir.
q. What | want to get at, if can, Is the
| reason why these others tourists didn't give
| you the money and let you send out for the
winey A. Because II was a great bother to
much as possible.
q. You are there for the purpose of being
| botneredS A. Not in that way, wasn't.
q. Weren't you in there to accommodate
touristsr A. Not in the liquor traffic,
| wasn't.
Q. Why not? A. Because against the
orders of the house to do so.
Q. Just tell us what those orders were.
A. | can't give the exact words.
Y. COmeJust as near at it as you can and
tell ms just who gave you the orders and Just
what the orders were. A. Mr.. Clark gave
me the orders.
Q. Tell us what those orders were. A.
Not to send out and get any wine-didn't put
1t In that way-not to send out and get wine
unless 1t was some particular man who
especially desired it, and was unable TO 20
and procure it himself.
@. That is, if man had lost a leg and
couldn't get around comfortably, you would
send out for him? A. 1 don't know as to
that.
Q But if physically capable of going him.
sell you let him 90 after the wine? A. Yes,
sir, did.
@. Do you say that Mr.. Clark told you not
to send out after any wine, provided the
man could go and get il himself? A. | can't
give you his words exactly, but the idea he
conveyed to me was that he wanted Just as
little served in that dining room as possible.
q. lie wanted to get along with just as
little service as possible-as the guests would
put up with, that was the idea? A. No, sir,
don't mean to put 1t in that way.
T. You don't, but that was the substance,
that is what you were wanted to do when
you come down to rock bottom, il the guests
of that house demanded wine, and insisted
upon it, you were to send out and get it?
A. No, don't think that.
Q. That was what you did, wasn't It?
z. And so when a guest of that house,
especially if be was particular guest of the
house, insisted upon your sending out and
getting wine for him, you got it? A. There
was no insist about it.
Q. If he asked. A. II he asked me and it
was convenient for me to get it, got it.
Q. q thought SOL Now, isn't It true that
this was what Mr. Clark told you, that you
must not use the money Of the house to pro-
cure this wine with, wasn't that what he told
you. A. Never had any such talk with Mr..
Clark in regard to money.
Q. If understand you right, you say YOU
never had this charged at the desk. A.
never did; no, sir.
Q. Aud what these clerks say about that is
all mistake. You never had any wine that
was used in the dining room charged at the
desk. A. | never did; no, sir.
2. Mr.. Flynn has testified that while he
was there you or somebody was accustomed
to send out from the dining room and have
liquor charged at the desk.
Objected to on the ground that there
hasn't been any such testimony
Q. Was Mr.. Boynton clerk while you
were there. A. No, sir.
q. That was before yOnr day. A. Yes, sir.
z. Referring to this Maquam party YOU
remember that. A. L do.
q. How many people do you say there
were in the dining room when you served
this liquor to them. A. 1t was at the end of
the meal; the exact number | don't remem-
ner; not but few.
Q. L want you to tell just exactly what
was said upon that occasion between the
man who ordered the liduOr of you and YOUR
self. A. When they came in and sat down
they said they wanted something to drink.
Q. What did you say. A. told them they
couldn't get it.
@. What did they say. A. | told them the
hnnGQ nnu I haY,, |
doesn't sell any; don't see how you are
going to get it." One of them spoke up
and said something; that that was all |
bosh, or something like that, / don't |
know exactly what was said; he said |
/ could get it II l wanted to. Then told |
him that II he wanted me to send-I asked |
him what he wanted-that was the idea; he |
said he wanted bottle of wine and gave |
me the money and | sent my boy out across |
the street to get 1t: don't know where he |
went.
O. He didn't have on any Free Mason
charm. A. No, sir, not that know of.
Q. Will you explain to these gentlemen
how you happened to send out for that
party on that OCCASION; what was there
about the party-about that particular party
that induced you to send out for them when
you wouldn't send out for anybody else. A.
don't know as there was any particular
thing about 1t.
Q. 1t was a very unusual thing for you to
do; now, want you to tell this board of
how it happened that in the case
of this party which came in there simply for
dinner you happened to send out and get this
wine, when you wouldn't for the generality
Of people who asked you. What was there
about the party that induced you to do it.
A. There wasn't anything about the party.
q. What was there about the occasion that
Induced you TO do 1t. A. | presume because
there was not many in the dining room and
the boy was idle, and II was convenient.
Q. You had boy that you could use just
as well as not and you thought you might
just as well send him out. A. i think so.
q. Ii Mr.. Clark or Gov. Woodbury. had
told you not to send out and get liquor and
serve It In the dining room do you think you
would have sent out on that occasion. A.
don't know. have broken other orders.
| presume likely would
Q. Do they pay you for breaking orders
down there. A. No; don't pay me for break
Ing orders.
Q. Do they find it convenient to have a
man in that dining room who will break
orders. A. / don't know as to that. have
broken good many since have been there.
Q. Do you think il Mr.. Clark and Gov.
Woodbury. had told you not to serve any
liquor in that dining room that you would
have brought in this wine and claret and beer
|
might seem that wouldn't. can't say.
q. He hadn't told you any such thing, had
ne. | say, he had not told you not to serve
liquor In the dining room. A. No, he had
not.
Q. Referring to the time when Mr.. Stone
was there, and when you say he exhibited
Masonic charm, are you allowed to disclose
he secrets Of the Masonic order. A. There
vas no secrets disclosed.
q. | know there wasn't upon that occasion.
But want to find out something about il |
myself, and | simply inquired whether you
we're allowed to disclose those secrets. My
temperance principles are not good enough 7
o join the MasOns it will do for you, man
If conscientious scruples, man that
wouldn't fall-By Gov. Woodbury.: Why
lOn't you use the witness decent. By Mr..
prOuty: He doesn't use the case decent.
What Is that charm that YOU have got on
here. A. A Masonic charm.
@. What order does It represent. A. Free
Masonry.
@. Anything more than that. A. No, sir.
q. Something was said about the sod
legree. A. Yes, sir.
Q, Is that the emblem of the 32d degreeY
/. IL is.
@. am not familiar with these technical
erms, Is the 32d degree of the Mystic
Shrine the same thing? A. No, sir.
Q. The Mystic Shrine is something differ
mt! A. 1t is.
Q. How Is it about the temple of Mount
sinai, Is that different or the same thing?
i. don't know anything about that.
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