The leader., 1905-07-26
re "CARBONATED FOAM" AND Off.
ClAL DEL lNQUENCIES.

readers to get the impression that
1.-THE prominence and large amount
lof space given il Wednesdays 's
Leader to a report Of the Calhoun
TRIAL, was due in any respect to
the prominence or Importance of
the defendant personally or to
anything The editor of this paper
had to do personally with The case.
from beginning to end. We had
altogether different reason.
Aside from The Leaders, function.
as a newspaper, we wanted the
people of Lincoln county and this
lcity to clearly see and understand
just what they are up against as
between defiant and shameless law
breakers on the one hand and de-
llinquent and unfaithful officials on
the other. So far as Floyd Cal
houn is concerned, be is nothing
but bold and subservient figure
head in the case, ready to do the
bidding Of those behind him as
they pulled the strings, and Citi-
zen B. I. Hobbs is no more than
lany other plain citizen Of Brook
haven or Lincoln county who is
Interested in the supremacy Of
lIaw and order.
We wanted the people to see
land understand for themselves
how a regular beer saloon, under
THE thinnest of DISCUSSES had been
established on one of our main
public roads within a half mile of
the court house and the offices of
1.-TWO justices of the peace and the
constable, and run openly and
labove board for weeks and was
never molested until the initiative
was taken by a private citizen;
land all this, too, when the bad
character of the place was noto
rious.
The history Of this Carbonated
Foam joint will bear brief rep
etition here. Started in town BY
ID. B. Magee, in the rear of Per-
klns' furniture store, it at once
became celebrated for the amount
Iof drunkenness and disorder it
ereated. On the initiative of City
Marshal Hurst, who promptly
took in the situation, Magee bare
lly escaped conviction before the
Mayor for unlawful retailing, and
was next indicted by the grand
Jury and decided to quit. Mean
while, Floyd Calhoun, who had
been running the place for him
and his silent partners, was con-
Victed and fined $1,000 BY the
Mayor on an affidavit sworn out
by City Marshal Hurst and the
place closed by the city authori-
tiles. But no sooner was this done
than it was moved out and opened
lup on the Monticello road beyond
lthe corporate limits, right while
1.-THE Circuit Court was still in ses-
lsion, Though the grand jury had
adjourned), and there run in full
blast, without official molestation
until closed in the manner report
led in Wednesdays Leader.
| There was another important
point brought out at The last trial
which may have escaped the aver
age reader, and which, taken in
connection with other evidence
land circumstances, is exceedingly
Significant.
II will be remembered that the
Ieyidence Of The States witnesses
showed that the greater portion Of
lCalhoun's stock was lager beer,
ranging ID strength from 80 to
4.15 per cent. alcohol. It will all
lso be remembered that the beer
bottles were stoppered differently
from the bottles with red Nerve
Tonic shoppers, and that the
Carbonated Foam labels on the
lbeer bottles had the words, nom
alcoholic omitted. It will also
lbe remembered that Constable
Blue testified that when he went
back to Calhoun's place On Mon
day morning after the raid to haul
1.-The stock away. he found the
lhonse had been opened the night
before and all Of the goods stolen
lout except three barrels Of bot
i tiled drinks ID the front room with
THE oil cloth window curtains,
4 which be produced IN court on the
trial. Every bottle Of real beer :
Iall that left in the Ice box and all
that left ii barrels BY the Consta-
bic and his posse On the night Of
THE raid had been carried of BY
the thieves during Sunday night
following the raid not bottle
q II