The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-02-10
One Barre Man Had 81 Pitts
Of WhiSkey
ANOTHER HAD 9 PINTS
Both Stoutly Insisted That They Had 1t
for Personal Use, and Then One
Changed His Mind-A Woman !.
Bound Over.

Two successful liquor raids were made
by the police department last evening
on warrants issued by Grand Juror i.
r. Davis. The first place visited was
at the house occupied by Henry Cataract
on Summe2 street, beside Q. n. Bene-
diets blacksmith shop. Here the officers
searched Mr.. Cataract as well as the
house, and in his pockets they found FIVE
pint bottles of whiskey. In an overcoat
they pulled out two more pints, and, in
searching the woodshed, they dug up
two pints out OF the dirt under the floor.
The officers in the raid were Carrie, Chief
Faulkner, Hamel and Gamble.
Cataract, who lives alone in the house,
was arrested and locked up in the police
station until this morning, when he was
arraigned before Judge Scott in city
court on the charges of keeping and
selling. Henry had no counsel and when
asked by Judge Scott what he wished to
do in regard TO the complaints against
him, he said that he could not plead gull
ty as he never sold liquor"
81 have been drinking lot of liquor
for l6 years. said Cataract, "and have
to have it,"
He also added that when they had IL
cense here he used to buy it here; but
since the city went dry he sent away
and got it in large quantities. His case
was then set for hearing on Friday
morning. He was placed under $3.50,
which he said he did not think he could
furnish.
The Second Raid.
The second raid was made at SO South
Main street in the tenement occupied by
John w Magoon. The officers, Hamel,
Faulkner, Carle and Special Phelps, took
Magoon completely by surprise, as they
found him opening box containing 81
pints Of whiskey that he had Just re-
ceiYed. Though Mag0on insisted strenu-
ously that the whiskey was for his own
use, the officers took it and arrested Ma
go0n as the keeper. When brought be-
fore Judge Scott this morning, Magoon
was still very indignant that he should
be charged with selling and keeping and
said he was ready for trial any time
and If they could prove he sold, all right
he could stand it.
He said that he had no time to sell
liquor, as he worked regularly at thee
Smith, Whitcomb & Cook machine shop,
but if the officers wanted to ssiugs him,
he had just as soon stay there for six
years He wouldn't ever ask anybody to
help him, he said, and he had Just as
soon stay in Jail as to work in machine
shop, He said he was in the habit Of
drinking a pint Of whislSey day and
had to have lot OF ii Oh hand The
box which he was opening when the Off
GERS arrived was marked with the name,
~. May, Barre, VT. Judge Scott set
the hearing for Saturday morning and
fixed the bail at $3.50. However, after
the matter over for an hour
in a cell in the police station, Magoon
asked the officers to take him back into
court, and he then changed his plea of
not guilty to guilty Of keeping with the
intent to sell. He was sentenced to serve
not less than three and a half and not
more than four months in the county
Jail at Montpelier.
Under the new law passed at the last
persons convicted in liquor
cases and given sentence Of less than
a year have to serve their sentence in
the county Nil instead Of the house OF
as the old law provided This
is the first sentence to the county jail
made by the Barre city court since the
law went into effect. /.
A Woman Bound Over.
The third liquor case to come up this
morning was that Of Mrs. Catrina Cas-
sani, whose house was raided last Sat
urday night and quantity Of baer and
ale was found Her case was set for
hearing this morning, but she waived ex-
animation and was bouud over to county
court under bail Of $3.50, which was fur
nished. The liquor was condemned by
The court and ordered destroyed, and she
took an appeal to county court in this
ease. She was represented by Attorney
r. A. Hoar
Eusebia Fernandez appeared in Mnot
pelier city court yesterday and waived
examination on the charge of keeping
liquor with intent to sell.
He was bound over to county court and
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