The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-10
SUNDAY LIQUOR
 SELLERS CAUGHT Selma Police Want the Prac-
 tiCe Stopped GUILTY ONES ARE NEGROES Assallant of ]. E. Allen Has So Far Eluded Capture, But If Caught
 He Will Be Safely
 Jailed.

Selma, October 9.-(Special. .)-Last night
 the police department had a haul l that has been in mind for some time. | The authorities have been pretty well | satisfied that in one or more of the col | ored restaurants In the eastern portion | of the city whisky was being sold on Sunday To get sufficient evidence to se- cure conviction. however, has been
 | the trouble that has always confronted | the officers.
 1 Yesterday morning a negro was found who had purchased half-pint of whisky from Jack Polintz's restaurant in the Long House" near the Southern rail- way shops. In the afternoon the negro went back and purchased another bottle. Then a raid was made on the house and Ada Polintz who was running the place yesterday in the absence of her nus band Lee Givans, waiter, virginia Christian cook and Henry Logan were arrested. Jack Polonitz, the proprietor or the place, was arrested upon his return to the city Charges Of violating the Sunday law and of selling whisky and cigars without license were docketed against the whole crew. Henry Logan was found laying on the bed in the rear of the restaurant when the officers made the raid and around him were piled about a dozen pint and half-pint flasks in an effort to keep them from the eyes of the police. The cases will be tried tomorrow morning in mayors court and ii is expected that the | limit of the law will be imposed as the authorities have been waiting to get suf- 6cient proof before flushing the game and the effort will be made to break up | the practice.
 Early Crap Game Stopped. This morning about o'clock Captain | Miller of the police force, flushed about six negroes shooting craps in an all night restaurant on North street. Two of the | parties, Betiney Johnson, Jr., and Paul Shivers. were caught, the remaining ones getting away Their names are known however, and they will be arrested to- night and answer to the mayor in the morning. A" the players were hackmen
 who were Hing the time away until their calls fell due for the morning | trains.
 Still at Large.
 The assailant of J. F. Allen, the young
 man who was shot near Thomaston last week and brought to the city for treat
 ment, is still at large. Booker Glass Is | his name, and he was tracked until | Saturday when all trace of him seems | to have been lost. MT Allen inflicted a | wound in the stomach of the negro, but
 | 1t seems that the shot was a glancing one Information from Thomaston is to | the effect that there Is no excitement
 over the matter only a determination to
 I apprehend the negro if possible and that | if caught he will be carried safely to l Linden.
 Local and Personal.
 | There was a Sunday cutting scrape yesterday between two employees of the Cawthorn cotton mill. George Fuller and Hance Ellison had a quarrel over a pair of shoes and Fuller pulled his knife and plunged 1t into the breast of Elli- son. The wound inflicted is not consid- | cred serious though In the region of the heart.
 Capt. W. C. Billinglea of Browns. one of the most prominent farmers of the | county, was visitor to the city to- l day.
 | Among the county visitors to Selma | today were Charles E. Butler of Pleas ant Hill and J. T. Potter of Moss Grove | Col B. F. Ellis came up from Orr vile this morning and spent today in Selma Colonel Ellis is prominently men toned as a possible candidate for county commissioner from West Dallas in the next election.
 | Miss Clara Galloway who has been spending the past two months in Ma rietta and Rome, Ga, has returned to | her home in this city.
 Mrs Edward Graham has returned from | visit to her old home in Fsunsdale. | Mrs Howard Lauderdale and son, James, will leave tomorrow for Wash | ington. to visit the old home of the for mer