Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-10
KEEPING OPEN HOUSE.
Liquor Dealer Fined 500 and Costs
Appeal Was Taken.

John D. Lunny, who has kept sa-
loon at the corner of East Main and
Hayden streets for twenty-five years,
was before the city court this morning
charged with keeping open last Sun
day. The states witnesses were Of
flcers Brearton and. Kiersted. Their
testimony was to the effect that last
Sunday they saw man pass to the
rear. of the saloon and IL g. followed
him. But he was quicker than they
and he had disappeared when they got
to the rear of the saloon. But they
listened and they heard the voices OF
men talking in the saloon. Brearton
demanded the door be opened and, re-
ceiving no response, he said: "John,
you'd better open or I'll burst in the
door, Then there was scutt11ng
sound and the officer put his hand
through sheet of paper that had suf-
feed for broken pane and opened the
door. The place was empty, but in a
moment Lunny showed up. He look
ed to be in a hurry. The officer saw
pail under the beer faucet, and there
was fresh foam In it. He also saw
two or three glasses around and they
looked to have been recently used IN
offerings to Bacchus. But what
struck the officer more than anything
else was track of beer from the bar
to the door. Before he went into the
saloon, the officer said he had been
watching from Spencer's yard nearby
and he saw a man hand a four quart
pail over the fence in the yard.
Attorney Seery for the defense
drought out the fact that
the yard is used by large
number of people as short
cut. Officer Brearton did not deny
that he might have made threats to
''land" Lunny. He said that he had
heard he had made threats of that
kind, but did not remember making
them.
Lunny's story was that he was
showing Andrew Carolin a vacant
tenement in the building when he
heard the officers open the door and he
ran to see what the noise was about.
The pail under the beer faucet and the
glasses on the bar and stove were
there since the night before as he had
not time to clean up. AS for the beer
in the pail he would not give it to his
dog to drink, he said, and he saw that
Brearton did not take much of swig
of it when satisfying himself as to it's
contents. There are thirteen families
in his property and the talk the Off
Ger heard was merely his talking to
the cat. Moreover, there is a tene-
ment directly over the saloon and the
talk may have come from that place
Officer Brearton was satisfied, how
ever, that the talk he heard was not
cat talk.
A fine Of 800 and costs was fmpos-
ed and an appeal was taken.
A complaint against John Sasso and
Felix Cerrill was nolled on their paw
ing SIS each. They were charged with
violating the plumbing ordinance
Mrs David McKenna was the chief
witness In the complaint against Pat
rick Boyle of 20 William street for
keeping vicious dog, which she said
knocked her down and bit her in the
side, laying her up some days. She
said she was passing by her door when
the dog attacked her. The dog also
attacked her husband and her mother.
, Boyle said the dog was "a fool Of a
dog" and that he reared it from a
pup. 1t is a st Bernard and all the
children In the neighborhood play with
1t. Lately they have been taking It
away and he was forced to tie 1T ND.
He said he could prove the dog was
not vicious. The case was continued
thirty days.