The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-23
Council, However, Refuses to
Revoke Licenses of the
Offenders.
WARM DEBATE IS HAD
WHILE NATTER IS UP
Politics Is Injected, and Mr.,
Mulyey and Mr.. Fern
StrOm Clash.

James Tedcscos bar in which murders
recently were committed after midnight,
on the charge OF violating the midnight
closing clause. took place Monday even
inS.
The Tedcsco bar was allowed To keep
It's license by n vote of 8 to 3. and only
one vote was recorded for the revocation
of the Heidelberg license, This was Mr.
McKinncy's, and when Mr.. Ferustrom
moved to dismiss the case against the
Bank saloon, in which the pcrpetrator OF
the murder In the Heidelberg purchased
flask OF whisky shortly afterward MIR
Mckinney seconded the motion, which
prevailed.
The vote ON the revocation of the
Tcdesco license was as follows:
Nays-Hal. Holley. Hodgson. Morcton.
Mulyey. O'Donnell. Reedall, Reed and
Ycas-Fernslrom, Lees and McIlin-
ncy--3.
President Ferry and Mcssrs. Wood and
Lyno were absent
l.. Pagan "A negro, WHO lives over the
Tedesco bar. was the first witness eX-
am!ncd in this case Fasan said that he
nd %s ,ha hptoMn W. ne nTm IN OF fnS nfqor o
home When he reached the Tedesco
saloon the door was closed, but not
glass OF beer. The bartender gave it
to him. he said. Pagan forgot TO men
tion until he was cross-eNamincd that
the bartender refused 10 accept pay for
the beer, but gave it to him as a
"trcaI'
Hall Turned Down.
The occupation of porter is highly iiexi
BILE, judging from Tedescos testimony.
Tedesco said that Leonard Piro, the mur-
dererS victom' was a porter. but went
at II o'clock at night and acted as
bartender until midnight Then he acted
rs porter and cleaned up the place,
Tedcsco affirmed with some show OF vio-
lencc that he never knew of either OF
his saloons being open after midnight.
Jri... Hpti 11p6 hT
lice be questioned as to the midnight
closing custom OF the saloons, but the
chair ruled the suggestion out of order
on the ground that the police department
was moi being investigated.
MIR. Fernstrom asserted that II was his
ell desired to look lnio was in order.
This led UP To what afterward brought
on n warm. wordy encounter. between
waH passed.
Mr.. oDonnell moved that the license
not be revoked, but Mr., Fernstrom de-
inanded that the chief OF police be called
Ii would be an injustice 10 Tcdesco, Mr..
Fernstrom said, TO revoke his license
when 100 other saloons were violating the
midnight closing clause. Mr.. Fernstrom,
by nsinuation and ipTuendo, said that 1t
looked like the police department was in
league with the saloons in violating the
law He also nslnuated that the chair
was attempting gag rule In ruling the
suggestion that the police chief be called
10 The stand our OF order. but Acting
the Third down hard and there was no
more OF this
Mr.. Mckinney pointed out the lack of
logic OF Mr.. Fcrnstrom and Mr.. Hall de-
claring that il would have been just as
well 10 say in the Fassel murder case
that Thorne and Riley, two OF the mur-
cause the third man in the murder had
escaped Their position is that we must
turn this man Tedesco, who has been
proven guilty, loose because we haven't
been able TO catch the other yiolatorS,"
said Mr.. Mckinney
In explaining his vote in favor OF the
revocation OF Tedesco's license Mr.. Fern
strom dragged politics in by alluding TO
the operation or the trade slot machines,
forgetting that these devices are in oper-
alton by the. grace OF a church Republican
Justice OF the peace who held that they
were not gambling devices and therefore
could not be confscated by the city au-
thorities Mr. Hall also injected some no.
litlcal bombast Into the explanation OF
his vote on the matteI- -,narging league
between the saloons and the police de-
partment.
Harry Gilmer. a waiter. the first wit
ness examined in the Heidelberg case,
showed a strong desire to shove the time
OF the murder there back, placing it about
1890 o'clock when a matter OF fact ii
occurred an hour later. Gilmer said that
eating and drinking just before the muir
der occurred. but he couldn't say whether
the meals we're ordered before or after
midnight II was not only on redirect
examination that he testified that three
beers and one drink OF buttermiils that
he served TO one table were ordered be-
fore midnight. The ordinary man orders
his drink before eating 10 give him an
appetite, Gilmer said.
Patrolman Patterson did not observe
any liquor glasses on the tables when
he entered the saloon and restaurant i'm
mediatey after the shooting. because he
was too busy trying to apprehend the
was on Main street, and most OF the
saloons closed at midnlghr, ne testified
He always told the saloons on his beat
TO close at midnight. he said. About the
only time he ever saw saloons open after
midnight was when he was off duty, he
testified.
Testimony of Bartender.
William Murphy, the night bartender,
said that he never sold anything from the
bar after midnight, but he admitted that
Gilmer sometimes helped him and that
Gilmer might have got the liquor from
behind the bar for his customers. While
ers were scattered all over the bar room
Murphy said they must all have been in
front. because he could not see them.
Carl Mayer, the proprietor. placed the
murder about 40 o'clock. The reason
for the place being open so late the
morning OF the murder was that two or
three persons came In about 1880 o'clock
with an order for fancy steaks that II
took from thirty To forty-fiyc minutes TO
serve. II there was any liquor served
after midnight that night Mayer knew
ro,hng about 1t. he said He had gone
10 the cellar to conceal his money; n
habit lie has cultivated since he was
robbed once or twice. and the murder
vas committed while he was down stairs
At the conclusion OF Mayors testimony
Mr.. Mckinney moved that his license be
revoked and Mr.. Fcrnstrom seconded the
motion. In speaking TO the motion Mr.
Fernstrom said he couldn't understand
why q policeman on his beat could see
no saloons open after midnight. but could
find them open when he was off his beat
Mr.. Fcrnstrom got so personal again that
he had To be called TO order by the
chair. Then he induIged in some more
IlIibuster with the statement that he was
convinced that the saloons are not TO
blame but that there was an agreement
with the police that they shall keep
Dpep.
Following this vote the Bank saloon
rnee was dismissed. Davis casting the
,nIy vote against the dismissal
Canyon Company Protests.