Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-07
LIQUOR LAW VIOLATION.
Garret Savers Fined $loo and Costs
 An Appeal Taken.

Oarret savers Elned $lOO and Costs
 An Appeal Taken. The hearing of the cases aga1nst Garrett Savers for dispensing liquor in his saloon arter hours last Sunday, and against James O'Hearn for being on the premises were heard by Judge Peasley in the city court to-day and occupIed the greater part of the fore noon. Savers and O'Hearn were de fended by Attorney Guilfoile. The testimony of Officer Kiersted was to the effect that about 1O:3O o'clock last Sunday evening he went to the rear door of Savers saloon, situated at 691 South Main street, and found it slight ly ajar. He had heard noise like people running, but though he got to the rear door ill a minute he saw no one in the saloon, but he waited afld Savers came out. He asked Savers what he was doing there and Savers replied that he was on his own prem ises. Savers invited him inside and he went in. He looked about the place and went to the cellar, but saw no ev- idence anywhere of the law having been viOlatd.
 Thereupon he went away, but half an hour later returned and went to a back window. He raised the curtain Of this window and saw Savers inside the bar, apparently at work. He saw two or three persons in the room under heath the window, which the officer said appeared to be dummy Kitchen. There he saw two or three persons, but in the next breath he said he saw four or five men. He dropped the cur tain and heard Savers say:
 tSTUal1 ffhofss yUhorn I fnnld6 fhn n0n and tomorrow I'll tell the boys about it''
 The officer said he distinctly saw O'Hearn sitting on what appeared to be table and there was dirt on his clothes. He did not see a boiler or anything in the room that denoted 1t to be a kitchen.
 Under cross-examination he said he was all over the premises, but he saw nothing wrong there. He did not see stationary tubs in the kitchen nor a cooking range There were two beer glasses and a whiskey glass on the table. The officer said he tasted of the contents of the glasses and found they had contained beer and whiskey.
 He said four or five neighbors told him they could get all they wanted at Sayers' any Sunday, and that some persons on "the hill' told him the same thing.
 Officers Brearton, Clafrey and Dona- hue and Sergeant Pagan testified to the reputation of the place, and also that on each occasion they visited the place they found nothing to indicate any wrong.
 Savers then took the stand He tes- tified that he was in the saloon when the officer called, cleaning his beer pipes. A number of officers had been there from time to time, but they never found anything out of the way.
 stKiersted,'' said Savers, sscame in Sunday morning and I took him all over the place and he then went away The next thing knew he had jumped through the window into the Kitchen as my wife was cooking supper. for Jim O'Hearn and Tom Kelly" He denied having furnished them with any liquors or beer. Both men board with him and O'Hearn has also bis three children. He denied putting his shoulder to the kitchen door, as the officer testified, to keep him out. The beer which the officer had seen | O'Hearn and Kelly drinking belonged to Kelly, who is accustomed to buy a dozen bottles every Saturday. He diSO uCuicu saying Ac uslo IOoiCA tuO cop.
 Kelly admitted that he had used the words, "This is the time we fool lem, " as he was filling out the beer. Just then Kiersted tumbled in through the window, which is about ten feet from the floor. He took the window curtain with him and his shoulders stuck through 1t. "He was like frog" said the witness. The first thing he said was, ssYou can't fool me, Gar rett" "I was not arrested" went on Kelly. "and I dared him to arrest me. As the officer struck the floor, Mrs Savers ran out of the room" M. T. Sullivan, formerly police man, testified that Kelly buys beer from him every Saturday and produced book proving the statement. Tn his argument Attorney Guilfoile said it is a queer thing if person cannot drink glass of beer in his own house on Sunday without being arrest ed for it. Nevertheless, the court found both accused guilty and fined Savers $1OO and costs and O'Hearn $1O and costs. Appeals in both cases were taken, Savers under $500 bail and O'Hearn $75
 Thomas Murphy created disturb ance in the vicinity of St Francis Xav- ier's church last evening and was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to thirty days in jail. The same sentence was imposed upon Philip Lynch for intoxi- cation. Lynch halls from New York