The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-09-13
Instead, It Contained Fifty
Bottles Of Beer
WHICH THE POLICE SEIZED
Seven Men Who Were Caught Drinking
in the House Made Effort to Dispose
Of Their Bottles as Best
They Night.

As the result Of a liquor raid At is
Granite street SATURDAY night, something
new in the line Of hides" was discovered
by the officers when they found fifty
bottles Of beer in the cupboard with
the family china. The raid was made
In the upstairs tenement Of the house
and Mrs. Winnie Willis, who occupies
the tenement, and Jack Stewart, who i
said to be the "star bOarder' at the house,
were arrested and locked up in the police
station.
This morning the two were arraigned
in city court on the charge Of keeping
and were placed under $3.50 bail, each,
for their appearance for trial Wednesday
morning N. M Gordon appeared as
counsel for the respondents. They were
unable to furnish bail and will be kept
in the station until after the trial.
The warrant for the raid was made BY
Grand Juror r. r. Davis and the officers
making the raid were Policemen Hamel,
Gamble and Cade, Deputy sheriff Fl. d.
Camp and Special Officer George Howe.
The officers visited the house about o:30
o'clock, and as they tramped in the front
door they frst came upon seven men
drinking beer in the front room. Most
Of the much surprised individuals had
bottles Of beer in their hands when the
biuecoats appeared, and they made a
general scramble to hide the stuff. The
officers took the namos Of the men and
then began searching ne house.
Officer Gamble went into the kitchen
and opened door to "a innocent enough
locking cupboard and saw a quantity OF
dishes nisely placed on. tho shelves. As
he cast q glance at the top part ct
the cupboard he discovered that there
was another smaM door iusk above the
one he had opened. Casting q chair to
stand On he pulled open this door, and
packed away in one corner of an enor-
nous shelf, be found fifty bottles Of beer.
The shelf, the officer said, had a capacity
for three times that number Of bottles.
When Officer Haxnel placed AIRS Willis
under arrest she told TIE officer that #
was queer that she should be arrested, as
the beer was brought there hy the men
who were there drinking, but one Of the
men Immediately spoke up and said that
they did not bring any beer there. Soon
after Mrs. Willis had been taken to the
police station Stewart, who claims To be
q b0aFder at the house, came to the
station and told Officer HaHel that be
had no business arrestsug She woman, as
the beer belonged to him.
rs that so2" aslsed the officer. "You
can consider yourself under arrest then.
As the officer led him into q cell and
turned the key il evidently put a diff
ferent aspect on the question Of who
owned the beer and Stewart then told
the officer that Ne only said to shield the
woman. Mrs. Willis has three children
1t is said that her husband has not been
living with her for nearly year.
John Brennan ran amuck in Jack Con-
nick's lunch room st s o'clock last even
ing and after The proprietor had thrown
him out onto The sidewalk Officer Carle.
who happened 10 be across the street at
the time. placed him under arrest and
escorted him To the pokce station. Bren
nan was talking and shouting al the top
Of bis lungs all the way Ia tl tation
and the noise attracted crowd arly
200 people, who followed alal the
station. in court this morniue unaH
pleaded guilty to a subsequent olfense
and was sentenced to the county jail for
30 DAYS and to pay costs Of s7.04
AS Officer Gamble was making his beat
down river street at $3.50 last evening.
he found James Fury lying IN the street
The officer telephoned for team and
rarted him to the station. When az
raigned in court this morning Jim plead
"a guilty to a fourth offense and was
asked to disclose where he got the liquor
with which lie became intoxicated. Af.
ter he had told the well-worn story Of
meeting two men, one of them swell
dressed and that they had two quarts
which they drank behind stoaeshed,
Judge Scott said that the story was
worth 80 days in jail and fine Of SIS.
with costs Of ST04 on top of it. Jim
avowod he had told the whole truth and
that he could prove his story by the
nan from whom he borrowed q cork
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