The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-04-03


lartments and companies. is expected to
be a beautiful feature.
The races of the tournament are spec.
taouar features, and usually develop mar
elous speed and fine athletes. The PEG
ple remain in the city three days.
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cupied by the club are located and by
looking through the skylight saw Bruner
serve 70 men with beer and four men with
whisky. He said that men would go INTO
the clubroom and get tickets, and then
go to the bar for their drinks. After the
customer drank, he said, he would present
the bartender with a check.
The method employed in the club was
then described in detail. The new menu
Der. he said, would go to the secretary
and sign an application for membership
and an order for liquor on some Chatla-
nooga or Memphis whisky house, after
which he was charged an initiation fee OF
So. He would then purchase little tickets
representing cents each, with which ne
paid for his drink. Specimens of these
blanks, orders and tickets were intro
duced.
Officer Street testified that when he
went to the club to make the arrests
Bruner was attending the bar.
On cross-examination, when Mr.. Street
was questioned, he testified that not a
single tag was found on any bottle of beer
in the establishment.
Lieutenant Hagood was placed on the
stand. His testimony bore no exceptional
features, simply bearing out the state
ments of Officer Street.
The city then introduced F. R. Gordon,
a member of the club, witness. Mr..
Gordon testified that he held card en-
titing him to admission to the rooms of
the club for which he paid 81, and that
he had paid several visits to the club.
After several questions were put by the
prosecuting attorneys Gordon employed
Attorney Weaver as his counsel and then
refused to answer several other ques-
tons on the ground that the answers
might tend to incriminate him.
With Gordon's testimony the prosecution
rested. The attorneys for the defense then
stated that they had no witnesses. At
torney Weakley stated to the court that
he did not desire to argue the case, but
Attorneys Glover and Weaver for the
defense. spoke on the facts in the case
with brevity.
At the conclusion of these speeches
Judge Feagin announced his decision, i'm
posing the penalty of a 800 fine and i'm
prisonment for 1870 days upon the de-
PENDANT. Notice of an appeal was then
given.
Second Case Called.
The second case. that of Ross McMil-
Ian, was taken up Immediately. McMil-
Ian is said to have been connected with
the club. The same attorneys who con-
Quoted the first case were in charge of
the second.
The evidence introduced in the McMil-
Ian case was essentially the same as that
offered in the Bruner case. Officer Street
after reiterating his former statements
testified that Mcmillan had offered to
make him a. member of the club free
of charge and tender to him all privi-
leges exercised by other members. He
stated that he refused telling Mcmillan
that the chief of police had sent him there
on official business, to go through the
place, and that he did not care to be-
come a member. He said that Mcmillan
showed him through the place when he
requested that such should be done.
When Witness Gordon was placed on
the stand he declined to answer questions
on the ground that the answers might
tend to incriminate him.
C. c. Fleming of a local transfer COM
pany, was placed on the stand by the
prosecution When asked if he had ever
delivered beer and whisky to the Social
Reading club he testified that he had
delivered about rs cases of beer and
whisky to the club. Asked who the
LIQUOR was addressed to he replied that
it was addressed to various parties, in
care of the Social Reading club.
The remainder of the evidence was vir-
tually the same as that brought out in
the Bruner trial.
The prosecuting attorneys did not argue
the case. After hearing the arguments
of the attorneys for the defense Judge
Feagin made the same entry in the Nc
MILAN case as he did in that of Bruner,
imposing the penalty of 500 fine and i'm
prisonment for 1870 days. Notice of an APP
peal was given
The case of H. n. luke was. called, but
owing to the absence of important wit
nesses the case was continued until this
morning at $50 o'clock.
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