The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-01

bury. who was then in the HouseLot
Correction and rested its case. ---
The defense Tuesday called three
travelling men to the stand, who hao
had liquor brought to their rooms and
seea il served in the dining room and
three others. ex-Alderman f, c. Har
rington and f. j. Booth of Burlington.
and Rev. Edw. Homes who told of wine
being served at drummer banquets
but Harrington who was on the com
mittec of arrangements SAID II was
| bought aud furnished by the committee
and the house refused to have anything
| to do with II and Booth said the gov
ernor expressly objected and said no
servant of the house should have any
thing to do with it. Then dispositions
were presented from c. +. Lamb.
James Flynn and f. c. Aubrey of New
York, \. }. Boynton OF Rutland, for
mer employees of the Van Ness, as
clerks and in other capacities, who
told of the bell boy process of serv-
ing liquor there, all stating that the
boys went out of the house to buy 1t,
got the profits on the transactions them
selves, and usually collected for 1t at
the rooms Of guests or in the dining
room. though sometimes II was charged
on the bill and paid for when the guests
settled at the office. Sometimes also
the boys borrowed to pay for 1t from
the cash till at the Office on the ledger
Lamb said he had never had any in
structions what to do. Aubrey testified
that very often ne asked Mr.. Clark,
the manager, for money to buy liquor
for guests in tn presence of Gov.
Woodbury.. who merely asked whom 1t
was for He said that nobody ever for
badc him to get liquor for guests al
though Mr. Clark had told him to be
careful
Aubrey also spoke of frequent poker
games in the house, and the chips being
kept in the hotel drawers. for the use OF
the players.
Wednesday Louis Patterson, Michael
Duffy, Frank Mamery and Ernest Chausse
former employees of the house were
witnesses either personally or by depo-
sitjon and told of how the bell boy bus
mess was done. Patterson said that in
93. Manager Clark told him that the gov
ernOr had given orders not to have any
liuuor charged on the books. IF they
wanted any liquor we should 60 out and
get it ourselves, but he didn't want any
more charges of that kind on the books.
Eugene LaFountain and John Cook,
clerks in nearby drug stores, told of con
stantlysupplying liquor to bell boys and
giving them Il discount on the trade. w.
III. Sheldon. Homer. Riggs, Cushnan /
Hill and B. +. Chapman of Middlebury. |
II. f. Taylor of Cornwall, X. S. Smith of
Bristol told of being served with drinks,
cocktails and Others in their rooms aud |
in the dining room and seeing it done for
others
Harry DeVere. a head waiter at the
Van Ness fer | years beginning in lSS2.
and now of the Brooks House at Brattle-
boro, WAS witness by deposition. lie
lid serve champagne, bass ale. lager.
etc. for the last two or three wears OF
his service. The guests ordered their
liquor of DeNere and he would tell the
,oys - "ct it, He did noJ khow where
he boys got It, the guests paid for 1t III
he dining room. He never refused Il
quest but told them il was temperance
iouS,, and he would try and get it for
hem. Liquor Wa neser kept in the
iufcl to hi- knowledge, nor the proper
glasses Tor the various drinks; who ever