Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-29
PRICE TWO CENTS,
WORKOF SHOPPERS
Another Lot of Warrants Issued
 This Afternoon.
PROSECUTOR RP1ERcE'sPosIrIoN

Liquor Dealers Are Much Worked Uu : Over His Action-They Think He
 Is at the Bottom of All the Trouble
 and Not Some of the Best Peo-
 ple''
 The second batch of warrants against druggists and liquor dealers for violating the liquor laws was issued this afternoon. Numerically the batch is disappointment con siderlng the statements made by the prosecuting agent, Attorneys Pierce. there being only seven implicated, whereas from conversations with Mr5 Pierce one would infer that three times that number would be sum- moned to court. At noon the situa- ton was such that only the names of those who had been notified up ro that time were given out for publi- cation. They were three druggists, Thomas F. Casey of Baldwin street :. Henry B. Platt of Bishop street and James Coughlin of Baldwin street. There appeared to be something in connection with four liquor dealers. that perpleNed the police and prevent ed the authorities concerned from giv- ing their names to the press. The cases against those in the first batch which were not tried last week together with those of to-day will be called in the city court tomorrow morning.
 Two of the four liquor dealers ara Marcus Hellmann. Grand street and Daniel Murphy of Murphy & Son. West Main street. It is said the other two are not in business now and that l the police will have some difficulty in locating them. That is the reason why their identity would not be re- vealed
 There is hardly q liquor dealer in the city who Eesitates to say that the next prosecuting agent will not bel the present one, Attorney Wilson E. Pierce. The liquor dealers. in vieWl what they say they did at tn | election and at the reQorst of the | ty commissioners. are 2'moSt l nous in the statement that they 1 been used very meanly by the cutting agent and that they wilN ! nothing undone to prevent his | pointment next June. They do
 believe his published statement
 he had nothing to do with the brin here of the two private detectives,
 ans, q student in Yale college, and
 dell, of New Haven; that they '
 brought here by .:seme of the hest | ple'' in the city. All this the lid l dealers look upon as q Subterfuge l the lamest character by Mir P1erca
 The conduct of the county comn
 sioners during the political campa
 last fall is considered, even by the 1 quor dealers themselves, now that
 time is gone by, as the most brazen a
 impertinent they ever encountere
 Senator Kennedy is making it wan
 for some of them just now at the ca
 ital.
 The influence of the county coI
 missioners among the liquor deale
 of the whole city was apparent in th
 result of the state election in this cit
 it was so open and barefaced. in fac
 that many of them are now heartil4
 ashamed of themselves and admit thai
 the treatment they are now receiving l from their appointee. the prosecuting
 agent. is just what they deserve. l They contend that these private de 1 tectives did not begin work wtthodf l MT Pierce's knowledge. for, they take
 it that the strangers would have nrst | informed themselves as to what recep' | tion their evidence would meet y7ith
 from MT Pierce. They argue that | they were considered by the cot commissioners as possessing polt | influence, they surely must have so1 | power at the polls, and that they could hardly wield that in better cause i than their own when the opportunity
 presents itself the next time.