Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-21
VIOLATING LIQUOR LAWS.
Sheriff Rigney and Party Visited Southford and Southbury Saturday.

Southford and Southbury Saturday.
 Sheriff William J. Rigney, accom- panied by q number of officers from this place and Naugatuck, made tiy- ing trip to Southford and SouuhDury, both no license towns, Saturday night and landed two yiolators of the nquor laws They were John Murphy of Southbury, proprietor of the paper mill boarding house, and w. H. Scott, who keeps the Oatman house. Mur- phy was arrested in consequence of the grumbling of Scott, who complained of being the object of the officers visit whenever they felt like taking q trip into the country, or whenever they ] happened to be with fishing or hunt 7 ing party and had had bad luck.
 Sheriff Rigney was accompanied by Justice Hamilton, Attorney John M. Sweeney, Constable Guilty and Rogers of Naugatuck and Booth of this city. Nominally the party was under the di- rection of the justice, but the main work of conducting it was done by the sheriff. When the party reached Southbury the first place they vlalted, a few of them entered the Oatman house and walked right to the bar, where they on former occasions found drinking going on- They found tue same condition of things on this occa- sion, four or five men having emptied as many '.schooners'' just as -he wis itors entered the room.- The proprietor was present and when he saw his Els- itors he threw up his hands and made an exclamation to the effect that II was all up with him. Being caught in the act he was informed that two war rants had been issued against him, one for keeping intoxicants with lii--
 A1.<. 1kln fflTs the said intoxicants. There's no get ting out of it this time for me, gentle men," said the proprietor. and being in formed of the consequence he paid Sl0 and costs on each complaint, which amounted to about $50, for !he pres ence of each member of the party or officials meant s or S6. Then ScolL said it was hardly fair that he sAouin have been pulled so often, when others were evidently selling as openly as though they had a license. He was asked whom he alluded to and lie ulu not hesitate to say that he meant Aluf- phy. who keeps the paper mlll poard- ine house. He intimated that Murphy was doing business with the rerinis- sion of the authorities sub-rosa. UT course the insinuation hurt the dignity of the officials present and they lefS Scott with the impression that De would soon find out he was wrong m such a supposition. There Is 3 teie- phone in Scott'S place and he sald 10 the officers that he would not allow any one to send Murphy tip over if. Nevertheless it was evident, when the officers approached Murphy $, lniI he had received tip, for three n!en near the place acted in manner lnaG told Sheriff Rigney they had been lli-
 f7.,1 ISlf they rapped for admittance Mrs Mur- phy told them to wait a while, as she was tying up the dog, an animal that bears a nasty reputation. Hlgl and low the officers searched the house, put not a trace of any illegal act could be found. Murphy blandly told them they were at liberty to turn the house upside down, and he positively refused to settle" Thus dared, Sheriff Rls- ney stationed some of his followers around and in the house while with others he searched the outside prem ises. After considerable. time i'll 2 fruitless search an outhouse about forty yards from the house proper was visited and there three bags of beer were disclosed, each bag containing about four dozen bottles. This was more than the officers expected, and they returned to the boarding house with this evidence. Then Murphy re- eretted he had not 7-settled' wacn re- ouested without putting the officers to the bother of searching the premises. Still the next moment he was as obdu- rate as before He refused 10 settle, whereupon he was promptly put under arrest on two counts of having vio- lated the liquor laws. Constable Booth, being the biggest man of the party, was ordered to remove him. Murphy, however. did not allow mat ters to go that far. for he submitted to the process of settling" 1t cost him S25 with the trimmings on two counts.