The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-24
Found Guilty a Second Time
of Selling Liquor to Miners
and of Permitting Minors
to Loiter.
APPEALS ARE TAKEN
IN ALL THE CASES
Mayor Stated in Court That
He Now Intended to Take
Steps to Have Parker's LII
cense Revoked.

Steps will be taken by Mayor Zim.
norman to revoke the saloon license
of Lewis Parker. proprietor Of the
Windsor bar on North e street. accord
ing to his statement from the city
court bench this morning. just after
he had Aned Parker $50 and costs for
selling liquor to minor.
This conviction made the second ono
against Parker. he being fined for tho
same offense last week hy Mayor Zim-
norman. Following the second case
Prosecutor Ladd read an afiidavit to
Parker charging that he permitted
minors to loiter In his saloon. He was
fined $40 and costs on this case. At
torney ". w. Keller. defending Park
err appealed all three cases to circuit
court. II all three OF the appeals are
decided against him Parker will me-
cessarily be refused liquor license in
case he applies again to the county
commissioners.
Evidence introduced In the case.
similar to that presented in the other
trial against Parker. showed that two
young men went into the Windsor bar
and ordered beer at ave minutes be-
fore eleven o'clock. Three minutes
later they were arrested by Patrolman
Hebble. The boys were held as wit
nesses and Parker slated for selling
| liquor to minors.
Ladd's Construction.
After the first conviction Prosecutor
Ladd held that every sale Of glass Of
beer was a separate offense, therefore
he filed second charge, together with
another affidavit charging lettering.
In police court on Wednesday Attor-
ney Keller. quoted the supreme court
decisions to show that a similar case
had been decided as only one, or q
Joint sale. While in the Parker case
no money was paid for the liquor Heb
BILE interfering. In the case quoted by
Keller. there had been ten cents paid
by each Of two parties. Consequently
Mayor Zimmerman said the case re-
ferred to would not apply to the Park
er case.
On Tuesday In police court Mayor
Zimmerman said that he would not
render decision without learning
| what the parents OF the two boys
| thought OF the affair Accordingly
Attorney Keller interviewed both faith
ers. He said both knew their sons had
been drinking. and that they believed
Parker had been prosecuted enough.
They were quoted by Keller an saying
that some other saloons. where liquor
! was being obtained daily by minors
should be investigated. He made
these statements to Mayor thinner
man in police court
! In his decision Mayor Zimmerman
said there had evidently been q separ-
ate sale to each OF the parties, no
agreement having been previously
made that one should buy the liquor.
Keller 10 Mystified.
| Attorney Keller observed when he
asked an appeal that he failed to sec
how the court could disregard the de-
cision of the supreme court OF Indf-
ana.
No evidence was introduced on the
hearing of the lettering case. Attor-
ney Ladd said that minors with real
business in saloons could not be loi-
tering there, but as the law prescribes
that liquor can not be sold lawfully to
minors, the purchasing Of liquor in .
saloon was not legitimate business
Therefore, as they were not ordered
out the saloon keeper was guilty OF
permitting the minors to loiter In his
saloon.
Keller in his argument charged Ladd
quoted no law. but merely expressed
his opinion. which. he observed. would
mot be worth much before supreme
court" The courts decision, which
Keller termed as awful" was to the
effect that the minors should have
been ordered out of the bar immedi-
ately. The mayor said he had pIedg-
ed to protect the people against unlaw-
full saloonists and that he would fine
every saloon keeper whom he thought
/ to be guilty.