Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-06-22
@. G. rU aNER NOT GUILTY.
lie Was Tried Before Jury Tuesday
on the charge OF selling Liquor al
Hotel Brattleboro.

lie Was Tried Before Jury Tuesday
on the charge OF selling Liquor at
Hotel BrattIeborO.
c. c. Turner, who was behind the bar
at Hotel Brattleboro when the officers
made a raid June / was arrested by Chief
of-Police Hall Saturday, on his return TO
the state. A hearing was held before JUS
tice r. j. b. Cudworth Saturday afternoon
and the case continued until Tuesday at 9
o'clock. Bail was fixed at $3.50, Lawyer
A. f. Schwenk becoming his surety.
Tuesday morning Mr.. Turner and Mr..
Schwenk asked for jury trial and the fol-
lowing Jurors were drawn: Azor Mar
shall, A. w. Rockwell, Hervey Harris, 7.
w. Barnard, +. f. Young and K. b. Bar
rows. BY the time the jury was complete
It was too late to proceed with the tri-
al and so 1t was postponed until the after
noon. The charge against Mr.. Turner was
that of selling liquor and he conceded one
previous conviction upon that charge in
December, 1897.
States Attorney Barber called as the
first witness Officer Worden, who testified
to making the raid, finding G. G. Turner
behind the bar, aud of finding several bot
ties of liquor and glasses beneath the bar.
Officer Dix testified TO assisting ia the raid
of seeing two men at the bar drinking
what he supposed was beer, and of seeing
Mr.. Turner draw a glass of beer and place
it upon the bar. Harry Boyd, employed
by the S. A. Smith company, said he was
in the hotel drinking beer the night the Of
fcers made the raid and had been there
several times before, but had never bought
anything but beer He said the beer was
what was called rice beer or 90 per cent
He did not know what was meant by 81
per cent? more than that it was applied to
rice beer Frank Rogers of Prospect
street testified that he knew G. C.. Turner
and had worked with him, that he was
stage hand at the Auditorium and under
! Turner's direction; he had never had
trouble with Turner and had never threat
ened to do him injury, and that he had
been in the custody of an officer all the
day. He said he had bought beer at the
! Brattleboro House and that on June he
bought glass of whiskey of c. c. Tur-
ner and paid him 10 cents for it, He al
! legged that it was the only time he ever
! bought "hard stuff'' at the Brattleboro
! House.
The defence put c. c. Turner on the
stand. Mr.. Turner testified that he had
| been employed as meat cook and as clerk
in the Bratteboro House, and that on the
| night of the raid he was tending the bar
at the request Of Tam" Ferriter, the reg
| ular bar tender; that the beer he sold was
marked Notwithstanding hop beer and
/ that he supposed it was Notwithstanding.
He did not know what per cent of alcohol
| it contained, but knew that beer similarly
marked was found to contain / ! to Il per
| cent of alcohol when analysed He denied
! having sold drink Of whiskey TO Frank
! Rogers. He understood Rogers had threat
ened to "get even" with him To- some fan
cied injury concerning the wG~k al the
| Auditorium.
The defence called no more witnesses.
! After the pleas by the attorneys the Jury
retired aud returned after about 80 min
utes' deliberation, their verdict being not
guilty.