The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-17
Preston, of Chicago, Refused to
Show His Health Ger
tifcate.
COST HIM SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS.
Fined For His Violation of the Quarantine
0rdinanOe-Sa Said Inspector Was
Rude-He May Appeal.

Persons who attempt to run the
blockade of quarantine and come into
the city of Brunswick without exhi ib-
itng the necessary certificates were
given a lesson yesterday afternoon,
when G. S, Preston, charged with this
Otfense, was fined SIS at a special ses-
sion of police court. Mr.. Preston is a
travelling man from Chicago, repre-
senting butter and cheese house.
He reached the city Wednesday night
at O'clock on the short train from
Everett. Previous to his arrival, In
spector Nathan Nussbaum, at Everett
City, wired Chief L. w. Beach to ar
rest Mr.. Preston, as he had come
through the lines without certificate.
Mr.. Preston was arrested yesterday
morning by Chief Beach, and placed
under bond for appearance at special
session Of police court at p. m.
Conductor C. E. Turner, who is in
charge of the short train which runs
from Brunswick to Everett every day,
was also summoned to appear before
the court to answer a charge of aiding
and abetting Mr.. Preston in his viola
tion of the ordinance.
The cases were called at the city
hall at O'Clock. Mr.. Preston was
called to trial first. He had no law
yer, but appeared in his own defense.
From the evidence introduced at the
trial and sworn to by Inspector Nuss-
baum and Messrs. Sol D. Peyser and
Oppenheimer, travelling men who were
on the train, it appears that Nussbaum
approached Mr.. Preston on the depot
platform at Everett and asked for his
certificate. Mr., Preston told him that
he had no certi ficate and boarded the
train, which was starting off. Nuss-
baum had Conductor Turner to stop
the train, and informed Preston that
he would have to show a certificate or
stay away from Brunswick. Preston
1aI hot ho
wick anyhow. as he had bought tick
ct there. Nussbaum called on Con-
ductor Turner to put the travelling
man off the train. This Conductor
Turner refused to do, saying that he
had no instructions to put anyone off
the train for the reason stated.
Nussbaum had to allow Mr.. Preston
to proceed, but wired to the officers to
intercept him. Nussbaum, however,
did not know Preston's name and his
telegram did not give the officers any
data upon which to make an arrest.
The officers, therefore, had to wait for
further information before they could
apprehend Preston.
At the six-mile crossing, Inspector
Pittman allowed Preston to proceed
without showing pass, thinking he
was one of a "bridge gang" which
was on the train.
Preston, after the evidence was in,
produced a certificate from the Savan-
nah authorities. He said he did not
show it to the inspector because the
inspector approached him in rude
manner.
Mayor johnson ruled that the GER
tificate was not a good and sufficient
one, and stated that the offense was a
grave one, especially when the people
we're trying to protect themselves
from a dreadful disease. He sem
fenced Mr.. Preston to fine of $75 or
Imprisonment for 30 days.
Mr.. Preston said he would go with
an officer and secure a check for the
fine. This he did.
The suit against Captain Turner
failed with the first witness, Inspector
Nussbaum, who didn't seem to know