The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-04
LIQUOR CASES
BEFORE ELECTION
Spoilers Imported To Find Evi.
dence-Juries Disagree
Prescriptions From all the Doc.
tors i'm Evidence.

in the spring, tra-la, and the season
approaches for the annual city elec-
ton, something must be done to
stir up excitement and prejudice or
the voters might vote for license
was the reason Attorney Pusev at
tributed, in his plea at the court
house Monday night, for the liquor
prosecution against Druggist Col
lins.
The town was somewhat excited
for few days over the arrest of
DR.. McWhorter and Druggist Col
lins, and their trials Monday and
Tuesday. These trials brought out
the fact that two spoilers had been
hired to come to Miller and try to
buy liquor contrary to law.
These fellows went to DR.. Nc
Whorter, said they were i'll, and
asked for quinine and brandy. The
Doctor gave them the prescription,
which Clerk Hambly filled in the
Collins drug store, Mr. Collins being
absent in Chicago at that time.
1t appears that there was some
technical error in the prescription,
so many spoonfuls day, or some
thing omitted, and on this error the
arrests were demanded. The States
Attorney declined to bring suits
upon the evidence shown and place
the costs on the county, whereupon
an effort was made to get some one
with property to guarantee the
costs. 1t is reported that only one
man with property could be found
TO back the cappers against his
neighbors.
The trials were brought before
Justice Heltibridle, States Attorney
Bushfield prosecuting and Attorney
Pusey defending. The defence de-
manded jury trials, and the cases
were fought out to a finish.
Several prescriptions of a similar
nature were put in evidence, and
doctors and druggists testified that
they were usual and customary.
These prescriptions were from all
the doctors in town. and some of
them to alleged prohibitionists. The
jury IN both cases disagreed.
The comments Of citizens on the
street and at the court house were
not very complimentary towards the
two fellows who were hired to do
this dirty work, nor to the people
who hired them to come here and
persecute DR.. McWhorter and o. H.
Collins. a couple of honest, indus
trious boys, who have grown to
manhood here and who, with their
families, have shared the communi-
tvs responsibilities for many years.
And this too. based upon a mere
technicality which all doctors and
druggists admitted to be common
practice, with no intent to evade the
law.
A very general belief is expressed
that this community is law abiding,
and intelligent enough to govern
itself without the importation of
questionable characters whose most
conspicuous desire was to persuade
some one to do an illegal act.
In the meantime-while us citi-
zens, the good, the bad, and the
indifferent-and every man may
classify and label 'em from his own
point of view-while we were all
rubbering our necks out of Joint to
hear some good ones" the witness
es and attorneys might disclose
about our neighbors, a gentleman
from Illinois came to town seeking
location for a business enterprise,
for which there is an opening here.
He had been directed to Miller and
also to neighboring town. The
neighbors were not SO busy as us, so
they entertained him and a couple
of their commercial club men kindly
accompanied him to this city ito
help u.s."
Miller has no commercial clubs
organizations to look after the
stranger that comes within our
gates-unless he is a tin-horn de-
tective but when it comes to the
old time religion that makes us love
everybody. why, we've got it to
burn. How do we know" Be-
cause we've been singed.