Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-25
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Saloon Man Acquitted on Charge of Selling
Liquor on Sunday,
PRINCIPAL WITNESS INFLICTED HUNDRED
Mayor KoutsEy. on Advice of city
Attorney vetoes Council Resolu-
ton for Purchase of the
DWELL Property.

According to a local attorney. Judge
King started things yesterday. The asser-
ton arose after the trial Of Peter Uvick.
which took place yesterday morning.
T'vick was arrested several weeks ago for
having an open saloon on Sunday in vio-
lation OF the Slocurnb law. At the trial
trvick and all the witnesses for the de-
Tense swore that the liquor drank that day
was i'm celebration of the birthday of
man by the name OF Tony Burkit and he
as one of the witnesses said that he had
bought the liquor the day before and was
giving the drinks to his friends when the
officers arrived. On this testimony, which
the police were unable to disprove Judge
King was compelled to dismiss Uvick,
though he declared that the hole was
very small one through which to crawl
out. AS soon as Peter Uvick was dis
missed, therefore. Tony Burkit was ar
rested and a complaint was sworn out
in the court room Immediately and the
case put on trial Burkit was charged with
breaking the clause of the Slocumb law,
which forbids any person to sell or to give
away any malt, sprituous or vinous
liquors on the first day of the week. II.
G. Murphy defended the and sub
mitted It on the evidence of the Uvick
trial, but plead that the Slocumb law APP
piled only to liquor dealers. He reminded
the Judge that he was starting prece-
dent dangerous to the comfort of South
Omaha citizens and gave the opposing
counsel warning that II the thing of filming
a man for the giving away of a little
beer on his birthday was begun he would
compel the court to pass sentence on cases
which they did not care to try and in
places where it would hurt. He designated
the cases in hand IAN assassination of
Justice" The court did not take this
view nor was 1t apparently alarmed at the
threat In the plea of the defense. He i'm
posed the minimum fine of 800 and quail
flied his sentence with the statement that
he believed this was an exceptional case
and that Burkit had given testimony sim
ply as a subterfuge that he might shield
Peter Uvick. He said further that he
had no objection to a mans giving away
liquor in his own home If he wished
This" said the judge, might well be
made test case any other" An APP
peal was at once taken. Peter Uvick was
called on to sign Burkits appeal bond.
Lays Broken Leg to RObber.
Andrew Anderson was found at Seven
teenth and streets with his leg broken at
early hour yesterday morning. He had
been out the previous evening visiting a
friend by the name of Chris Nordol, Eigh-
teenth and l streets. About II p m. he
started to return to his home at Twenty
fourth and l. streets. He said that when
he reached Seventeenth and streets some
one assaulted him and struck him across
the leg with some heavy implement which
broke the limb just above the knee. After
ward, he said, the same party took from
him 1880. After being abandoned he
crawled to a house in the neighborhood and
lay down in summer kitchen. This house
belonged to Andy Christianson. janitor of
the Hawthorne school When Christianson
rose in the morning he found Anderson
helpless and notified the police. who took
him TO the South Omaha hospital His
broken leg was set by DIR. Koutskyy
The officers then went back over the
ground In search of evidence that might d.
rect them in the search for the alleged as
sailant. II was found that Anderson had
left the home of his friends the night be-
fore In an intoxicated condition and that
instead OF taking the direct road home he
had gone east to Seventeenth instead of
west. At Seventeenth and streets a num-
Der Of grading implements were in the
street. The police are inclined to believe
that Anderson simply wandered away and
in the dark fell over one Of these and thus
broke his leg. Anderson, however. posi-
lively maintained that he had been as
saulted. and that he ran east and south