Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
Council Bluffs
METCALFE TAkEN IN
Indictment Was Returned for Main
tanning a Nuisance.
APPEARS AND GIVES 1000 BOND
Three Arrests Of Men Indicted for
illegal sale of LiqaOr in a
Hotel to Missouri valley
Men,

Among the Indictments returned last sat
urday by the district court grand jury,
was one against Mrs. Emma Metcalfe, pro.
prietor Of the Metcalfe hotel at 1857 West
Broadway. which was not made public at
the time. Mrs. Metcaife was taken into
custody yesterday on a bench warrant and
gave bond in the sum Of 5000. The in
dictment charges the maintenance OF a
nuisance during the months OF March,
April and May.
Testimony before the grand jury con-
corning the Metcalfe place was given by
a number Of residents in that locality, in
Guiding several women and r. B. Wallace,
former city councilman. Mr.. Wallace testi-
fled that while driving past the Metcalfe
hotel on Sunday. April q, he saw several
people drinking beer on the porch and that
a party of men and women from Omaha
in an automobile who we're using profsne
language drew UP at the place and Just
as he was driving past threw a number of
beer bottles into his\ buggy. One Of the
women witnesses, a resident of that local
ity, testified that Mrs. Metcalfe came 10
her house one Sunday and invited her
over to take some beer" All of the wit
nesses gave the place a bad character.
Everett c. Goodrich, Ernest Jones and
Cyrus Jackson were also arrested yester-
day morning under an Indictment returned
Saturday by the grand jury. They are
charged with the Illegal sales Of liquor and
each gave a bond in the sum Of $500, with
w. S. Goodrich. father of Everett Good
rich as surety. The illegal sales are alleged
to nave taken place at the State hotel, SO
South Main street on certain Sundays in
the month of May. In the Indictment, 1t Is
also specifically charged that each OF the
three defendants had been before convicted
OF violation of the mulct law.
One of the witnesses before the grand
Jury in this case was Thorwald Chris
Jensen, a resident of Missouri Valley, who
testified that he had purchased liquor In a
room OF the state hotel on Sunday, May q.
The testimony of this witness is Of spe-
cial interest, in view of the fact that Rev.
James VI. Williams, pastor Of the Broad
way Methodist church, publicly stated at
a meeting of the Law and Order League
that he knew of young men from missouri
Valley coming to Council Bluffs and Sc
curing liquor on Sundays. Another wit
ness who testified to buying liquor at The
state hotel on a Sunday was Harry Senitt
who is understood to be a son OF Charles
w. Senlft. one of the class leaders In Rev.
Mr.. Williams church.
rive Oh the oeIGlluhllAS llilNNCu W 80
grand jury entered pleas OF guilty when
| arraigned before Judge Wheeler yesterday
and were given sentences in the county jail.
Edward c.. Thompson, charged with theft
of merchandise from the store of Madsen
Bros, in Bentley, where he was employed,
was given sixty days; George Thompson
and william Henry, charged with stealing
brass journals from a street railway car
were each given thirty days, while r. d,
Edwards. for stealing harness from the
barn of Frohardt Bros, received sixty
DAYS. Robert Shields, the negro charged
with resisting Patrol Driver w. j. Nike
sell, who had placed him under arrest
was sentenced to sixty days. \
Charles NJ. Sanford, charged with intent
to kill Claude b. Gano, secured his release
yesterday on furnishing a bond in the sum
Of $500, with Elmer Fehr and Wallace
Benjamin as s~ureties. Sanford had been
in the county jail since his arrest on
April 10.
John o'Neil, against whom an indict-
ment was returned on the charge OF MAX
ing threats to extort money, secured his
release from the county jail last evening
by furnishing a bond in the sum of $500.
Emmett FINLEY, attorney for Mrs. May
Noble, proprietress of the Riverside hotel,
yesterday paid into the office of the clerk
OF the district court $3.50. balance Of the
$500 which Mrs. Noble was fined last
April. on pleading guilty to violating the
liquor law and maintaining a house Of Ill
repute.