The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-20

procnpt,v given to him. He paid his five
cents and placed the proprietor under ar
rest. Ghanceman Reinecke, of the Weps-
ter avefstge station house, entered Larry
Sutton's saloon at the Five Corners, at
three O. clock Yesterday afternoon ana
asked the bartender. doe" Dewitt, Tor @
schooner Of beer. 1T was promptly hand
ed 10 him. He paid his FIVE cents, and,
it is said, drank the beer. Then he placed
Dewitt under arrest.
The police on the Heights were un-
usually vigilant in their search fer break
ers of the excise law, and in consequence
many who dared, the law and flew IL,
the face OF danger to gather in the .'un-
godly shekelss were scooped in. Those
arrested were:-M. Houghlin of No. 317
Grand street, bartender for jerry Rob
erts at Library Hall, at O'Clock; M
Keefe. of No. $40 Grand street. Both OF
the above were arrested by Patrolman
Lennon who was detailed from the
Seventh to the Fourth precinct III cti-
zeRs clothes. At $3.50 in the afternoon
T. Mitchell, bartender at the salocn OF
NJ. Laughton, corner of Johnston avenue
and Pine street. was caught
In this place Patrolman Gallagher. IN
citizens clothes, secured a glass of beer.
Carl Badenhlck, who conducts the saloon
at Stuyvesant avenue and the Boulevard,
was caught mapping. Owen Carroll, 4
years old, of No, 425 West Side avenue.
was another easy victim; john Judge, 80
years old. of No. 79 Jordan avenue, was
arrested while tending bar at No. 6S2
Montgomery street.
All the saloons in Greenville were closed
yesterday or seemed to be; Most OF them
had the shades down and the bars eN-
posed and those that did not went TO tne
opposite extreme and closed everything
as tight as a drum. In one or Two cases sts
there was a lounger to be seen IN the,
hallway of the house in which saloon
was located, but this was the only sign
Of openness. Those regular customers
who were known had little difficulty in
getting an 'seye-opener," SO that only
Strangers in the section went dry. One
near the car stable made his customers
climb up three flights of stairs to the
roof in the house next door and down
house. It required skillful plotting to
make such a trip with whole bones be-
cause of the encumbrances in the. halls.
against the excise law fell over wash
tub and sent it rolling down the lower
flight of stairs with such a clatter that
himself up fer lost. The clumsy individ-
ual got no beer and after that the way
round about was abandoned.
bursting with indignation yesterday,
"vot's der difference Won dis und der
Ryner's Pill, vot? Vor sex year mine sa-
look at dis pizness. So soon election is
over der poleeces says me you shall
NIGHT die deere oeffnen."
We'll ven dis ward vor der feerst time
goes Democrat vot you can exbect?" asked
a sympathetic beer lover. I've don't get
no lecrish lights now py der Ocean ave-
nue.. and you gotter keep der saloon closed
all summer Mein Gott dis viii preak
Dick Uldrich's heart
Roundsman Dodson and Patrolman
Donovan took an early morning tour of
investigation. They found the saloon
owned by Joseph Timble at Jackson and
Kearly avenues open at 1915. Roundsman
Dodson and Patrolman Donovan
walked in and called for whis-
key. 1t was served to them and they
paid for and drank it. Then Dodson asked
the bartender William Ashnore of No.
1874 Jackson avenue:-'Were you told to
close up your store today?'
Ashmore said he was but that he avoid
ed trouble by refusing admittance to
strangers.
ssWen, / guess I must be stranger to
you,' said Dodson, $50 you win have to
come along to the station with me-"
Ashmore donned his hat and coat and
was taken to the Fifth Precinct station
house and locked up. This was the only
arrest in sGreenville.