The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-26
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Petersburg saloon-Kecpcr Fined
S5o--Local Option Fight Prob
able if Council Fails to Act.
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PETERSBURG, VA. March 25.-The
Hastings Court, with Judge Mullen
presiding. has been engaged all day
In trying the first of the cases of the
several local bartenders indicted for
selling liquor 10 Charles Magce a
seventeen-year-o boy who went
around to number of saloons and
purchased liquor with money given
him by T. i. Kidd a well known Pc
tershurg business man. who is said
to have given the boy the money to
buy the whskey, In order to secure
evidence against tho saloonkeepers
Charles Magee, the first witness told
of purchasing at the saloon of willis
Gillian, half-pint of whislcy with
the money given him for that purpose
by Kidd. Kidd testified that he had
provided the money for the purchase
of the liquor, but that he did not
send Magee, and Sterling Connolly
corroborated Nragee's testimony con-
corning the purchase of the liquor.
Messrs. Leaney Fisher and Spencer
Magee (brothers OF Charles Mageel
identified written statement made
by Charles Magee after buying the
whiskev
Charles Dabney. the defendant
swore that the only white person he
remembered making a purchase at the
bar OH this day of tile alleged sale TO
%'tt ~. WIS a y pAllE White man VINO
bought bottle of Turkey gin.
At the close of the testimony. Mr..
Davis offered argument for the pros
ecution. and was followed by Messrs. |
Gillian and Wilcox for the defense,
and Nir Mann, of the prosecution.
closed the case.
The jury this afternoon returned a |
verdict of guilty, and Dabney was
tiwned $50.
. The case Of E. j. Hennessey, charged
begun.
May Have Local Option.
The question of regulation of tile
liquor traffic, and the adverse de-
Iision of the Finance Committee Of
the City Council last night in the
matter OF the restricting ordinance
drafted by the public temperance com
mittee and adopted at a recent mass
meeting OF citizens. are the main, topics
OF public interest and discussion inl
the city to-day. The opinion is fire.
uuently expressed that if the Council
follows the recommendations to be CON
tanned in its Finance Committees re-
port. and refused 10 adopt any of the
main suggestions OF the temperance
party, such as increase of the liquor
license tax removal of the saloons
from the residential section of the
city, and limiting the number. a local
option election Will result with very
strong probability of a liquor drought
OF Indefinite duration.
The temperance speakers who ap-
peared before the Finance committed
last evening emphasized the signifi-
canoe of the fact that the public Pc
tition requesting the Council to adopt
the proposed resolutions had in a very
short time been signed by 793 Peters
burg voters, and would be signed by
1000 before the April meeting of the
Council One of the speakers said
very plainly that If restriction was
rot granted prohibition would result
Negro Hard to Handle.
Buck Talley negro from Diawiddie
county, was arrested here this morn
ing. Officer Hall made the arrest for
disorderly conduct, but the negro be-
came so unruly that Officers Hudgins.
Evans and Eanes took part in the
scuffle. The prisoner. when searched,
was found to be carrying pistol and
pair of brass knucks 1t is believed
that the man was doped by some of the
dope dealers that work secretly about
the city.
Mr. ]. A. Anderson. of Richmond.
is in this city arranging for shoot
at the Riverside Club for March S1st.
when the all-star team of the Union
Metallic Cartridge Company, headed by c
the famous Miss Annie Oakley. Will c
visit this CITY, Il