The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-05
Tired Of Inactivity of
Officials.
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PREDICT SENSATIONAL
DEVELOPMENTS LATER
a Big Mass Meeting Is Called for
Sunday.
1nformation Was worked Up By a
Corps OF ForeiEn Detectives
ana some Tnirty warrant.
sworn Out.

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I'VE have been waiting upon the
pfrcers Of the local police department
and the deputies Of the sherifrs de-
partment for more than ave months.
land on their failure to take advantage
OF their constantly presented oppor-
tunities, to make arrests for violations
OF the prohibition laws. the patience OF
q long suffering public broke. we
have therefore, tried our hand at APP
pretending these violators Of the pro-
! hibition laws, and we have informa-
ton of such character as may lead to
sensational developments. when the
time comes to spring it'-G- 9. miles,
Like a thunder-clap from a clear
sky came the announcement yesterday
afternoon that thirty dealers ana
clerks of soft drink establishments
down town had been arrested and re-
leased on bond. For more than six
( months the prohibition laws have been
supposedly enforced IN Montgomery
without a murmur from it's citizens.
During these six months Montgomer-
fans had grown accustomed to the new
order of things. when suddenly the
president of the Law and Order
League announces by his arrests that
there has been steady, persistent
s.spotting" Of the alleged soft drink
establishments, and that information
had been secured OF most positive
nature that these soft drink establish
anents had not been observing the
laws.
For some weeks past there has been
q rumor that some of the detectives
who had been operating In Mobile had
been employed by the Law and Order
League of Montgomery, but this ru-
NOR was positively denied. At the
iaime OF the rumor the officials~ef the
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l4ion that they had employed other de-
tectives and that itsSmembership were
also sapistly at work gathering eyi-
Hence.
establishments, with their city licenses
TO sell soft drinks and near beerss were
men within the limit, both letter and
spirit. of the state prohibition laws,
hind the quiet attitude OF the offlcials
lof the Law and Order League gave
countenance to this superstition.
without the slightest warning war
rants for thirty proprietors and clerks
were sworn to yesterday at noon be-
fore Probate Judge j Is. CASTOR, and
1t was not until the deputies OF Sheriff
Hood appeared on the streets with the
papers In their hands, that the public
knew of the noon meeting of the mem
bers Of the League in George G. Miles's
once in the First National Bank Build
ing.
within a few minutes after the APP
pearance Of the deputies on the streAts
pFoprietors and clerks in soft drink
Embellishments were on their way to
the county jail to make bond for their
appearance at trial of their cases. AS
fast as the papers were served, those
arrested appeared before the sheriff
and made the bond of 5000 which had
previously been fixed by Probate Judge
CASTOR.
Those arrested yesterday afternoon
were: Peter ]. Mimic. clerk for W. J.
Gardner. 14 South Court street; Frank
Starr, clerk for Grief Brothers; ]. L.
Perryman, clerk for w. O. Stallings;
w. NJ. Dunivan, clerk for the r. w.
Cook Breeking Company, 1921 Monroe
street; John Mckinley, proprietor at 1913
Commerce street; jules J. Galatas.
clerk for Frank Wilson. 107 Bibb
street; Sam Strauss, proprietor 1913
Dexter avenue Charles G. Partin. pro-
prietor; Oscar Brown; Tom Kelly, pro-
prietor, IL South Court stSeet; J. A.
Galatas. clerk for Reese Martin, 80 Ia
Dexter avenue; Ed West alias Oliver
Mccain; l.. A. Dick; Solomon Cox,
bartender OF Windsor Hotel; VIII
Page, porter, SIT North McDonough
street; David Bernard. bartender for
B. s. Greil. Is Commerce street; James
w. McHu gh, clerk for T. j. Harrison.
122 Montgomery street; Frank Goisby,
bartender Yung's restaurant, 26 North
Court street; Henry Allen; Anthony
Fanchonetti. clerk for his fathers es-
Enlistment on Commerce street; Joe
Hyart; Joseph W. Abraham. for B. s.
Greil and Company; o. f. Finn, clerk
at 319 Montgomery street; Nelson Lew
IS. porter; W. ]. Mattox, clerk. Com
merce street; Claud Hutchinson; H. r.
Burkhardt. proprietor, ASS Bell street;
C.. e. Faulkenberry, proprietor, So1
West Jeff Davis avenue; Joe Madigan.
clerk for Goodwin Jones, Ludie street;
H. K. Alexander, proprietor, 1sO North
Court street.
An examination of the above list of
names of those arrested will show that
of the thirty, but ten were proprte-
tors of their establishments. The at
tention of Assistant Solicitor Logan
Martin was called to this fact. and he
replied with a smile; I'VE are not all
through yet. You must remember that
these persons whom we have caused
to be arrested are those reported to US
as having themselves sold liquor across
the counter"
Mr. Miles was asked how he secured
the positive information SUFFICIENT to
convict those arrested, which, he de-
clared to have in his possession. Mr..
Miles declined to state the exact meth
cd which had been employed, content
ing himself with the statement that
the information naQ NOT pSen secured
in a day, but had come as the hrst
fruits of a careful and systematic tour
of the city by detectives and members
of the League.
An examination Of the warrants
which have been returned to the sher-
iff's office show that but three names
have been placed upon the papers as
witnesses They are: ]. C. Kirkman,
John G. Pudkett, ]. H. Steincamp, On
most OF the warrants there appear but
two names as witnesses, but few Of
the warrants show that all three men
have sworn to information.
The three men are supposed to be de-
Eectives which were employed by the
Law and Order League, but no member
of the League will give out the names
OF the men who have done the spot
ling"
The warrants. prior to arrest were
sworn to before Probate Judge
J. d. CASTOR. after a lengthy con-
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