The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04
THAT BACK DOOR coNNEcrIoN.

"Yes, SIR"
THAT BACK DOOR coNNEcTIoN.
"Do you mean to say captain, that
there was a connection between the place
where the bar was and the upper part of
the houses''
"Yes. / have a pretty distinct rceollec-
tion that door from the rear entry
opened into the store and that stairs
from this entry led to the upper part tf
the house. -
Mr.. Mccarthy then sought to have the
witness state how far the other saloons
those of Winters, Brady and Baxter were
from the Burke location and elicited the
answer that in his opinion none of them
was within 800 or 400 feet; while Brady's
might be Thousand feet away.
"Would you say those places were in
the neighborhood?" asked Mr.. Mccarthy.
al should say they were"
"would you call a place within 500 feet
In the neighborhood?'
81 would"
"You know Trainor's place at The
corner OF Bogman and Plain streets?'
"Yes, sir. f"
GA license was granted there since this
investiga ion commencedY'
81 don't know as to that"
Didn't you report on the placer"
eyes, sir. i"
"You remember that Baxter was in the
Ahearn house?"
"Yes, 1 do"
"Did you report upon it?'
81 don't think we were required to at
that time"
"Was the part occupied as a saloon con-
nected with the upper part OF the house?"
"No, sir"
"Did he ever sell on Sunday?e
"Not that / nkow Of"
"Do you know who supplied him with
goods?"
81 do not.''
"Then you don't know he was Gus
toner of Mr.. Burke?"
"No, sir; don't know hat"
"You made report on the Burke prem
ises November Is; were the fixtures in
then?"
"No, SIR"
"Nothing but the bare walls?'
"There may have been bar there"
Scan you say whether after your ex-
animation and before the certificate was
issued any partitions were put up or
rooms made in that store?"
81 cannot say"
cit was new house?"
eyes, sir. "
"That part was never occupied before,
was it?"
"Not to my knowledge"
"Why did you. write that letter or re-
port?"
"Because IL was customary"
"Since when has it been customary"
"Always during the last four or five
years.
sat whose request did you write it?,
"Nobody's; it was a report"
"Wbo requested the report?"
"Nobody."
"Your attention must have been called
to that place by some one; who was it?''
81 think 1t must have been the chief OF
police"
"Don't you know who 1t vast"
''It was probably the chief of police. /
couldn't do so unless the chief or the IL
cense commissioners made the request,
and the commissioners didn't do that very
otten.n
"Have you any record at your office of
who requested you and where?"
"Then you can't explain why you did
this and at whose request?'
~ am pretty positive II was the chief of
police. Ii is seldom the license commits
sioners ask TO have this work done
Sometimes the chief sends letter asking
an examination and in that case / endorse
the report on the back of the letter and
send 1t back. When the request is made
by telephone ! write the report and send
il i'm TO him.
Then Genearl Wilson took another turn
with the witness.
'foW long, no hhkeu, nave you been
police captain?'
"Nearly sixteen years."
"You have been CAPTAIN ever since
this license commission has been estab-
lished?''
"Yes, cir.
"In reference to the granting OF a IL
cense or transfer to Mr.. Burke do you
know of anything being done by the
commissioners or by any one OF them
that was improper?"
"No, sir. 4"
"It was granted the same as others?"
GAS far as ! know II was granted the
same as others"
Mr.. McCarthy-"Were you present?r
"No, sir.n
"D;d tho commissioners inform you OF
what they did9"
"No, sir"
"Then what you have just told In what
you didn't know2"
81 told Mr.. Wilson what I did know"
"Were you consulted by the license
commissionersf"
"No.o
"And they didn't inform you at any
time about their action?'
"No, they didn't"
CHARLES m'oovERS's STORY.
uys.l 4At. E.-t.t.. s~-..f..