The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-22
KEGS OF BEER
FRgM EAlRM0NT
CAUSED TRoUsEE or SERIOUS
NATURE EAT THE DOWN nv.
En- CITY or MORGAN.
TOWN. FL

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MoRGANTowN. Nov. Two
fourgallon kegs of beer brought to
Morgantown last Saturday afternoon
from Fairmont and used that night in
a shanty near the colored school,
house on Beechurst avenue, caused
trouble Of serious nature, culninat-
ing in two arrests yesterday.
The shanty belongs to Dick Slime
and was used BY him as a storeroom
for potatoes, fruit. and household
goods. 1t was kept locked. Some time
Saturday evening the beer was car.
ried into the shanty without the
knowledge or consent Of the owner.
It is alleged that the door was broken
open in order 10 effect an entrance.
Six or eight persons assembled there
to drink beer, and they became bois.
ttrous, and smashed the windows,
broke the doors, multilated the fur
nitme and other things, stole and
carried of twenty bushels Of pota
toes. and fruit valued at 500, besides
other things. At least, this is what
they are accused of doing; and the
trial which comes up at 1 o'clock to.
day in Justice Barker's court will go
into the evidence in the case.
The only person accused is Jim
Smith, colored. He stoutly denied
that he did anything out of the way,
although he admitted that he was
there and helped to drink the beer.
He says that the guilty parties made
their escape the back way without be.
ing seen, but he came out the front
way, and some one saw him and
blamed him with the deviltry. He
says that he can prove his innocence,
and he hints that he may tell some.
thing about a poker Joint in that
shanty If he is pushed too hard.
The noise of the jewellers Saturday
might became so tumultuous that Abe
Cohen. whose home is in that part of
the town, called the police. The call
was responded to by officers Dan
Dusenbury and uulon Ringer. When
they arrived the jewellers had de.
camped, and they did not, at that
time, learn who had created the dis.
turbance. However, they found Vane
Bond near there, and he apparently
was drunk. But as no complaint had
been made against him, and being
called at that moment to go elsewhere,
they left him temporarily, and when
they returned they were told that he
was in the house Of Jim Turner. In
fact, Turner had helped him in, as
was said. The officers left him there.
About four o'clock Sunday morn.
ing, Bond awoke, and raised hue
and cry that he had been robbed Of
a gold watch worth $25. He still
sticks to his story, but as evidence
substantiating the charge is hard
to get, no arrests have been made.
But to return to the carousal In
the shanty. Among those who went
there that night was lad about IL
years old, named Earl Caddell, whose
home is on Chestnut street. He had
been giving no end of trouble to bis
parents and teachers. He wouli
not go to school, and ran the streets
in defiance Of authority. saturia!
night the climax Of sin was capped
by those in the shanty by giving The
boy beer in sufficient quantities t
make him drunk.
There being no apparent hope TO
the boy, If left to his own way, Pro
fessOr Gallup, superintendent of til,
city schools, yesterday had the lad al
rested on an incorrigibility charge
and he will probably so to the reform
school. He is in jail now.
Thus, the beer had rather serlou
results in many ways,
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