The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-01-05
A LEGAL TEST
THE GAY Y-SHATTUCK LAW IN
THE PARISH OF ORLEANS.
TYPICAL VIOLATIONS.
Information Filed Against the Presi-
dents Of Boston Club. the Pickwick
and Other Clubs and Owners of Bar
Rooms Noted for Their Prominence.

The fight for the enforcement Of tn
Gay -Shattuck law in the parish of Or
leans, with view to making a forma
test of the construction of the law. wa
opened in the Criminal District Cour
Saturday morning. when District Attor
ney St. Clair Adams placed on fill
seven infornnat'ons against ,prominen
men whose connection with clubs ant
saloons make them amenable to thu
law, says the New Orleans States. Th,
informations were drawn up by Mr.
Adams and his chief assistant, Warner
Doyle. Saturday morning. and the an
nouncement was made that they will b,
pushed to an early climax.
The most typical violations OF the
strict provisions Of the law were select
ed for the initial prosecutions. Those
who are made the defendants are:
Frank B. Hayne, president of the
Pickwick Club. who is charge with
violating the law on two counts. relative
first, to conducting bar room without
a permit, and second. for conducting 9
bar room within three hundred feet o1
church
c. S. Lewis. president of the Boston
Club, who is charged with violating the
law on the same two counts.
DR.. John J. Archinard. president OF
the Chess. Checkers and Whist Club
against whom the same two counts were
filed
Frank Stable. an alien who is said Il
be subject of the Kingdom of Italy
and who is for that reason prohibited
from operating a saloon under the new
law.
A. S. Leclare who is charged with op
Grating a saloon three hundred feet from
a church at Royal and st. Peter streets
Joseph Flandry and Fred Bertrand
who are charged with Jointly operating
saloon within three hundred feet Of {
church or school.
Theodore Grunewald. president of tfs
Grunewatd Hotel. who is charged will
conducting saloon within the three
hundred feet limit.
P1CKW1Ck CLUB BAR SAID re
BE ILLEGAL.
The Pickwick Club bar is said to be
illegal because Il is within three hun
dred feet Of Grace church. as well as
under the permit clause of the statute
The Boston Club and the Chess Clnt
are within three hundred feet of the
Jesuits church. The same applies to the
bar Of Flandry and Bertrand. the latter
being. however, in the prohibited area
by the air line measurements. while the
other bars come within the sidewall,
measurement distance The Hotel
Grunewald is opposite the Jesuits
church and for that reason comes with
in the 900 feet measurement. Mr.. Le-
clare is owner of Mannessiers historic
cafe which is said to be within 600 feet
measurement Of the st. Lottis cathedral
The Stable case is the information
on which the aliens will get theii
chance to fight that provision of the Law
which disquali6es all aliens from con-
Quoting the saloon business in the State
District Attorney Adams has selected
these cases out Of the great number oi
saloons and cafes in the city becaust
they present the most typical instances
where the provisions of the new Law
was violated on yesterday. He intend,
to have the cases allotted as easily al
possible and will then take steps to ia.
cilitate an early trial.
THE INFORMATION.
The informations contained a full re
cital of the specifications wherein th'
law was violated in each case. In th'
case Of the Pickwick Club the informa
ton Is as follows:
Warren Doyle, assistant district at
torney for the parish Of Orleans, wht
in the name and by the authority Of th'
said State, prosecutes in this behal
in proper person, comes into the Grim
inal District Court for the Parish o
Orleans, in the Parish Of Orleans, an,
gives the court hgere to understand an,
be informed that one Frank B. Hayne
late Of the Parish Of Orleans. on tn
first day Of January. in the year Of ou1
Lord one thousand nine hundred an,
nine, with force Of arms in the parisl
Of Orleans aforesaid. and within tn
jurisdiction of the Criminal Distric
Court for the Parish Of Orleans, beinl
then and there the president Of tn
Pickwick Club, a corporation duly or
ganixed under the laws Of the State Q
Louisiana, did then and there, wilfull
and knowingly conduct barroom, caf
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