The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-03-25
HAD A GOVERNMENT
LICENSE TO SELL
BOOZE IN COLUMBIA
DAMAGING EVIDENCE BROUGHT
OUT IN TRIAL or TOM
MCDONALD.
CASE CONTINUED UNTIL FRIDAY
Chemical Analysis showed That Wet
Goods Contained Sc per Cent. Al.
eohol-stephsnson Had sold Nc
Donald Several Dozen Bottles.

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The most damaging evidence agains
Tom Mcdonald, charged with violai
ing the prohibition law, brought on
at the trail In police court Tuesday al
ternoon, was the possession Of a gov
eminent license to sell liquor. Thii
document, under the State laws, Il
Iprima facie evidence.
When City Attorney Shelby COREY
offered certified copy of the license
as evidence, R. S. Hopkins, attorney
for Mr. Mcdonald. entered an objec
ton. He claimed that the office OF
collector OF internal revenue was not
an Office Of record, and that the only
way in which the city could get the
document before the court would be
for one Of the deputies in Collector
Sharp's Office to appear here. Mr..
Hopkins cited Judge Hart, OF Nash
vile. as having made a ruling to that
effect. In order to give the attor-
neys time to argue this question and
to submit authorities Judge Erwin con-
tinued the case until Friday.
The city proved by OfHcers Morgan,
Stages and Lancaster that q barrel of
malt goods and twelve pints of whis-
key were found on the premises of
Mr.. Mcdonald when the place was
raided Saturday evening. They stat.
ed that the liquor was stored In the
cellar, and that they found no bever-
ages Of a suspicious nature upstairs;
that Mr.. Mcdonald opened the door
and made no attempt to resist the Of
ficers in any way, his conduct at the
time being gentlemanly and courte-
Gus. None OF them had seeen any
whisky or beer sold in the place, al
though Mr.. Morgan had been offered
. drink by Mr.. Mcdonald few days
previous to- the arrest, both gentle.
men being in the basement at the
lime.
Chemical Analysis.
The city placed F. G. Smith, an ana
ytfcal chemist. on the stand and prov.
ID by him that he had taken four bot
les Of the malt goods, selected at ran.
lom from the barrel seized at Mr..
dcDonald's place of business; that he
lad carried this liquor to his place of
esidence and had locked it up; that
IN the following Monday he had put
he four bottles in the pocket of his
oat and started to Mt. Pleasant,
there his chemical laboratory Is To-
ated; that en- rotue to Mt. Pleasant
ONE one had stolen two bottles OF !
he goods, and that he had then held {
he remaining bottles in his hand to &
lsure safe delivery; that he had ana
,zed the liquor and that it contained /
9 per cent. alcohol II
Mr.. Smith testified that average It
eer contained 1893 per cent. alcohol. v
q read from a standard authority the r
of alcohol found in beer d
1alyzed by the state Chemist of Mas b
which showed the beer to a
'ntain from one to seven per cent Il
Other Witnesses. "
The city then introduced a number g
witnesses who had frequented Nc p
Dnald's place more or less, all of
EN- being asked If they purchased o.
lything while in the place. Two of o.
e witnesses admitted that they had F
ught beerette at ten cents a bottle, W
ID ont admitted that he had bought a
erette at fifteen cents bottle.
The witness buying the fifteen cent m
DDS had not asked for the big size. et
; examined a bottle of the seized sy
er and stated that It was apparent
the same size as the bottles he had W
released The goods he had consum- bl
had been labelled "beerette" on We
) bottle. CT
Enoch Stephenson.
DR.. Enoch Stephenson, Of the Ste =,
enson Bros, Drug Company, was In II
,duced. He testified that within the
1T week he had sold to Mr.. Melon
from two to four dozen empty
elve ounce bottles. He examined
tile of the whiskey taken from Nc
maids place, and said that the bottle
s very much like the ones that he
sold. Mr. Stephenson had not Wis
McDone'd's place.
No Witnesses.
fir. Mcdonald offered no witnesses, be
did not himself go on the stand. VIII
EN- the city concluded its evidence, int
agreement to adjourn was made. fas