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taken In the SANDER case OF Tinker against
Moore, and throughout the trial the
court room was crowded. A report Of
the trial is given below.
| Even greater general interest was taken
In the So called Foss cases, which involved
seventeen indictments of various kinds
for the violation OF the probibitory law.
These, too, are reported In detail below.
| An unusually large amount OF civil
the special assigned list were disposed Of,
snd the general list was well sifted.
| County Attorney B. E. Tracy states
that, while he is we'll satisfied with the
result of the disposition OF the liquor
Cases at the present term, he expects M ch
be ter results at the October term. Mr..
Tracy said that while but three jail sen
fences have been received, it should be
taken into consideration that many Of
the indictments found were procured on
evidence obtained before the announce
ment, an emancipation proclamation" as
1t has been termed, that the law would be
rigidly enforced, was made.
| 1t was not the purpose OF the county
attorney to ask for jail sentences in some
cases, but rather to use the indictments
as club to be welded in case the trans
gressors again transgress.
Sat the next term OF court" said Mr..
Tracy, II shall ask for jail sentences in
all new cases in which convictions are
obtained, and | have every assurance that
such penalties will be imposed"
| The settlement of liquor cases have
been constant source of trou BILE to the
county attorney since the beginning Of
the trial of the criminal docket These
have made his duties most arduous, owing
to the fact that old cases on the docket
nave come up for disposition which have
interfered to some extent in carrying out
the designs OF strict enforcement. A
great many claims for lienency have been
urged In these on various grounds bul
especially that the respondents had gone
out of the business and we're willing that
these cases should be held over them and
enforced upon future violation of the law,
but in all cases where respondents were
able to settle up the old cases he has stood
| firm In compelling them to do so, or have
t heir bail defauted.
| The county attorney has moved for
| Jail sentence in all cases OF violation OF
the liquor law which were found since he
order Of Dec. last, to close. In some Of
these the officers have been unable to find
he respondent, and two have been mol
pressed by reason of insufficient evidence
In al cases where the respondents have
been found guilty, however, jail sentences
have been imposed, with a possible excep-
ton OF Lester Reynolds, boy sixteen
years OF age, whose counsel plessd that he
had been employed where liquor was sold,
but had not sold it.
The disposition Of liquor cases in the
future was left in no doubt by the
"new proclamation" of the county
attorney made during the closing hours
of he session. He stated in open court
| that he desired to have it expressly under
stood that hereafter no more leniency
would be shown on his part for violation
| Of the liquor law than for violation OF
any other lew on the statutes, and thst
every respondent in cases brought beforr
the Hancock county supreme Judicial
court for violation OF the liquor law, either
by appeal or indictment, must suffer the
same treatment as to commitment to
| jail or recognizance before trial or final
disposition of their cses as those for
| her crimes.
| TINKER VS.. MOORE.
| The case OF Tinker VS.. Moore, which
was briefly mentioned in last weeks
AMERICAN occupied the whole OF We'd
nesday afternoon aud Thursday forenoon
This was an action for Islander in which
Mrs. Frances A. Tinker brought suit In
the sum of Is, 900 against A. E. Moore.
| The case was of particular local inter-
est. as both parties to the suit live in this
city, and are well known, and the court
room was filled with spectators through
| out the trial.
The plaintiff alleged that on Jan. 20,
1902, while the defendant WAS carrying on
sale of damaged goods in the room
known as the old coat factory, on the
north side of Main street, he accused her
falsely of taking goods from his store
without paying for them, or indirectly, of
stealing; that he asked her in the presence
OF several people what right she had to
take goods from his store without paying
for them, and of saying: 81 have had sus-
picions of you for long time, and other
people have told me about you. | saw
you take belt from the line in my store
and put it in your shopping bag, and
don't think that my eyes deceived me-"
The defendant claimed that on Janu-
airy 49, on the first day of the sale re-
ferred to, he had engaged the plaintiff to
look after goods for him at the sale, and
that at he close OF the days sales she had
taken out with her some bundles as her
purchases. On Monday, the Goth, she
again came into the salesroom, end he
asked her whom she paid for, or gave an
account Of, the goods which she took
Saturday, and she had said she paid or
accounted to the lady who acted as cash.