The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-12
SALOON KEEPERS WARNED.
HEAVIER PENALTIES TO BE IN
POSED FOR SUNDAY SELLING.

Recorder Wilson Puts Them on No.
tiee That Hereafter Both Fine and
imprisonment VIII Follow Con-
victiOn-He Has Tried Fines for
Three Years without Putting n
Stop TO the viOIatfons-W. f. Thee
Fined 500 for Having His Place
Open Last Sunday
Recorder Wilson announced from the
bench yesterday morning that hereafter
the penalty for violation of the law
against Sunday liquor selling win be both
fine and Imprisonment, and that the full
limit of 500 and thirty days in jail viii be
imposed in every case.
The recorder said, in making the an
nouncement, that fines alone seem TO have
no effect on Sunday liquor sellers. He
has been imposing the alternative sentence
of 500 or thirty days for three years. he
said, without there being any" decrease
whatever in the number of violations of
the law brought to his attention.
The saloonkeepers, do not seem to mind
paying 800 for the privilege of selling IL
quor on Sunday, and he will make 1t more
costly for them. Hereafter he viii avail
himself of every clause in the law against
Sunday liquor selling, he said.
This means, II the recorder carries out
MS threat to the letter, that the saloon
keeper who is convicted of violating the
Sunday law will not only have TO pay
flne of 500 and spend thirty days in jail,
but that he will also have ms license
taken away from him, this being one of
the penalties provided in the ordinance.
This announcement by Recorder Wilson
will not be received with any degree of
pleasure by the saloon men, or rather by
Y iose who persist in selling on SUNDAY.
Tie' know that the recorder means what
he says, and that the first man caught is
going to catch il in the neck
Ehe announcement was made by Record
er Wilson after rendering his decision in
the. case of w. F. Thee, who was charged
with having his saloon open last Sunday.
Thee was fined 500 or thirty days in jail.
Ofaccer T. C. Murphy. Murphy passed by
the saloon, at Burroughs and Bolton
streets, at IL O'Clock Sunday morning, and
heard talking inside. He waited until
two negroes, Peter Battise and Cyrus
Johnson. came out. Murphy made dock
ct case against Thee, and summoned the
two negroes as witnesses. When the case
came before the recorder, Thee and both
the negro witness testified that the talking
was not in the saloon. but in the kitchen,
and that no liquor was bought or sold
one of the witnesses testified that he
went in to borrow D cents from Mr. Thee
on his watch, sand the other that he was
bargaining for calf, which Thee had in
the yard. The recorder evidently did not
believe the stories of the witnesses, and
postponed the case until yesterday, in or
der tnat ne might go out and take a look
at the place. The recorder found the
place as described, and the calf was there
in evidence. Whether the recorder Thought
that the calf was borrowed for the occa-
sion is not known, but his decision show
ed that he was convinced that the police
mans statement that he heard loud talk
ing in the barroom was correct
Recorder Wilson's announcement of his
intention to enforce the Sunday LIQUOR
law with the full penalty, may have been
the foundation for the report that he was
IN the race for solicitor general against
Messrs osborne, Fraser and Sheppard
with the eXpec tation of securing the sup
port OF the prohibitionists and the friends
OF the anti-barroOm bill, who are ex-
Pected TO be very strong in the next legis-
Ialure. such report was in circulation
last night.