The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-15

ward avenue, is employed by the Peck
Lumber Manufacturing company, and
who built and set up the bar at
Raines' place, was also seemingly bent
on telling nothing lncriminating
against the defendants.
He took his brother to Raines' saloon
Easter Sunday to show him the fancy
bar he had built, and had dim recol-
lection of having bought a cigar, but
nothing more. He could not remem-
Der ever having admitted to Agent
Wilson, of the Mems union, that he
bought Intoxicating drink at Raines'
place.
DISPOSITIONS READ.
Dispositions from Internal Revenue
Collector r. +. Penman were read by
MIR. Torrey, showing that an effort
| had been made to secIre the records
of his Office or q certified copy thereof
| to prove that John Raine, the younger
defendant, had taken out two revenue
| licenses, and that the effort was un-
| successful, because the treasury de-
partment strictly erjoins its collec-
| tors not to take the records out OF
their offices and not to give a certified
copy of them to any one except on an
| order Of the secretary of the treas
ury.
Attorney f. e. Beers then took the
stand and testified to having examined
the records and found that young
| Raine had taken cut license April
| 1, covering the remaining part of the
| fiscal year, which cost him $705, and
another on July 1 for the succeeding
year, for which he paid S25.
| Agent Wilson ther testified that on
| the first Sunday after the Raines
| license was refused, last March, he
saw four men go into the barroom at
| 10 o'clock in a perfectly sober con-
| dition, and come out at 11.30 o'clock in
a state of intoxication. He also saw
a little girl come from the bar-room
with II pail containing what looked
and smeled like beer.
The defense was that the defendants
of course, were wholly innocent; that
p. p. Carter, becar Sc of some trouble
over the land on which the hotel was
built, was using f. b. Sturges and
the Mems union as a tool to work
vengeance on the Raines; that the
son leased the lower part of the house
to conduct a soft drink and ice cream
establishment; that the father had no
connection whatever with the busi-
|
Spanish war.
| SONS EXPLANATION.
The explanation which the son made
of the internal revenue license mat
ter was interesting. He was given to
understand by some ore that rev.
enue license was necessary if he want
ed to sell cigars and tobacco and he
proceeded to get cne.
Mr.. Torrey asked him what he call
ed for when he went to get the license.
He replied that he asked for a license
to sell cigars and tobacco. The reve-
hue officers gave him paper and
charged him at the rate of $25 a year
for it. This was done on two occa-
sions. He did not read the paper and
ali he knew about it was that it was
a revenue license.
Mr.. Torrey, in commenting on this
thing in his summing up. said the wit
ness was either the most barefaced
liar or biggest idiot that had ever
reached manhood's estate.
In his closing argument Mr.. O'Brien
fairly raised the roof with a vocifer-
Gus arraignment of the prosecution
for having lent itself as cloak to hide
Mr.. Carter's mailed hand" Mr. Tor.
rey in reply likened the defense to a
cutie fish, which, when it is attacked
exudes from a sac an inky fluid that
darkens the water all about 1t and
permits it to escape. Mr.. OBrien, he
said, was hired to press the sac Judge
Archibald gave no indication in his
charge Of having been very deeply i'm
pressed with the reasonableness of the
defense. He, however, advised the
jury to acquit the older Raines, as the
evidence was hardly sufficient to war
rant his being held for the crime. The
son, however, could be convicted or
all three charges of selling without 6
license, selling on Sunday and selling
to minors. The jury returned at
o'clock.
ANOTHER LIQUOR CASE.
The third liquor case embraced one
of three charges preferred agains
Nicholas George, of the North End
by his son-in-law and neighbor, An
thony Ruddy. The parties have beer
lawing for about two years and al
most every term of every kind of cour
sees them as litigants. The trouble re
suits from the fact that George!
daughter married Ruddy against hel
fathers will. Carrying concealed
: weapons and assault and battery wer,
the other two charges on which Georg,
was tried yesterday.
Ruddy's wife testified against he
father in all three cases. The evidenc,
: in the liquor case was of the usua
kind, the two Ruddys and Benjamin
Walker presenting it. George denied
that he kept a speakeasy, but mad,
a icc hof h
occasionally received consignments o
: beer from Stegmeir and whiskey from
Philadelphia. The case was given t
the jury by Judge Cameron just befor,
: adjournment.
, Other Quarter Sessions Cases.