Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-19
III THE POLICE COURT
AsAy Si1ss . shis ssssy of vislsiiea
 sf L.Qssf Law.

One of the strangest cases for viOlat- ing the liquor laws was tried in the city court to-day by Judge Burpee. Daniel Began WAS charged with keep ing open his saloon l47 Baldwin street after legal hours and also with selling whiskey under . beer lioense He was defended by Attorney Kennedy.
 Oficer Dunais testified that .Iast Sat nrday morning at 12:1O o'clock he saM Re8an in his saloon and a man at tf 2 bar drinking what he supposed to be glass of whiskey and then put the bottle containing the supposed whiskey into coat hanging near by. He shout ed to Began. Are you going to keep open all nfxht." and then rne lIxnDs were put out and the man at the bar pushed against him and disappeared. When the officer tried to open the door he, found it locked. The ofYicer deter minesl to. satlsfy himselr about what he had seen the man drink and Satur- day night. or rather Sunday morning when trying the doors of the saloon he saw that the cellar door was open. He went down the cellar and to his surprise found the inside cellar door leading to Regan's division of the eel lar proper open. Thinking that bur glarv had been committed, the 06iccr went up to the saloon and looked around Everything seemed to be in its proper place Then he saw the coat hanging from the wall in which he had seen the man place the bottle of supposed. whiskey. The officer felt of the coat and found two bottles. which he tasted and found them 10 contain whiskey. He also found glasses which are Used for whiskey and wine drinking and number of wtiskey fiasks. Both the front and back doors of the saloon were locked. He did not notify Began that his eel lar door was open and he did not re port the matter at the police stadcn but he had taken note of 1t In his book. In fact he did not report the matter to the police authorities unsii after Tuesday evening when Rrgnn met him on the street and told him he would give him twenty -four hours to return the bottles of whiskey. At torney Kennedy made the oficcr admit that he would not have reported the matter at all if Began had not accost- ed him about the bottles of whiskey. And he also got him to say that he ac- cepted two cigafa from ReEan. whicE is contrary to the rules of the police department. William keane of 342 River street said he was the man the officer saw drinking at the bar, and that he tends bar for Began quite ire auently. It was Rhine wine he drank.
 Regan's story was to the effect that hc had locked all his doors. Including his inside cellar door before closing uI' Saturday night and that two hogs heads were rolled against the cellar door. Thus his saloon was open from Saturday night until Sunday morning on account of the onacer's inauisitive ness. Regarding the bottles of whis- key. he said they were wedding pres ent from John Hurley two weeks ago when he got married and that he had them in his saloon for the purpose of treating his friends on his wedding, not to sell the whiskey. He spoke to the ofiicer about the cellar door being open and the officer was willing to let the whole matter drop.
 On the charge of selling liquor under a beer license Began was tined S2S and costs and on the charge of keeping open after legal hours he was discharged. -''Hewty ,tUmesky was fined q and costs for intoxication and SalvaiD Ian % for not sending his child tc school paid $lO. Mary Fitsgerah was told to quit town or suffer thirty days in jai' She was charged with intoxicaticu. Daniel Slattery was 6ned SS and costs for the same offense and Arthur Platt a colcred hoy of IA years was warned to let Henry White. another colored boy alone. Joseph Brennan was fined s1 and costs for assaulting his neigh bor Michael Lovett on Fuller street last Tuesday evening.