The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-01-18
BOOZE SELLERS ROUNDED UP.
TNNP sPRUNG THURSDAY AND
>,AGE FULL or TIGERS THIS
MORNING.
Three White and Nine Colorcd Cases
Up Before the Recorder Today for
selling Illicit Liquor.
From the Daily Item. Jan. IS.

city and A was decided in pursuance
OF the policy OF council In order to
MI pledges made during their candi-
dacy TO eradicate the "blind tigers
from the city to employ detectives to
work up cases on the liquor sellers In
the city and as result the trap was
sprung last night and this morning
the cage was full of the blind tigers, -
twelve Of them being up In the Re-
corder's court to stand trial for car
rying on their nefarious practice.
The arrests were made by the po-
lice and by the hired detectives, who
were working together in the case, last
night and this morning. There were
twenty-five arrest warrants sworn
out for the whiskey sellers and
twelve OF them were arrested, the
charges against somc OF them having
been double and some even more than
that. The offenders were: White:
George p. McKagen. r. S. Griffin, A.
w. Ledingham; Colored Henry
Sumter. c. C. Moore. Reese James,
Calhoun Gardner. Bella Hodge. Joe
Hodge. Marcus Bossard, Maud Miller,
Laura Boyce and G.. A. Cooper. OF
These Laura Boyce. Marcus Bossard
andl~G. A. Cooper. all colored, plead
guilty 90 the charge OF selling liquor
and were fined SIS or 80 DAYS each.
Reese James plead guilty to the
charge of storing liquor. but said that
he was not guilty OF selling 1t.
Today at noon when the cases were
called the court room was crowded
by many OF the curious. buth white
and colored. and by a host OF friends
OF those In trouble who came TO con.
dole with and console their friends In
their trouble.
The cases as called up were: G..
A. Cooper. colored. one offense, plead
guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine
OF SIS or to serve so days on the chain
gang.
Marcus Bossard also plead guilty to
the one offense for which he was
charged and nc also was given a
choice between fne OF S75 or serv-
IND so days ON the gang.
laura Boyce VAS the third person
to plead guilty and the third one 60
be sentenced to pay fine of SIS or
to serve 30 days on the gang. She
was also sentenced to serve 80 more
on an old offense which she had been
sentenced for several days ago. the
whiskey sentence to begin at the ex-
piration OF tie old sentence.
rhe case OF Reese James. who plead
.-ifty to storing liquor for which Of
Tense he was fined s75 or 80 days, for
selling liquor on two occasions was
continued until some other time.
A. w. Ledinghams case for
selling liquor was also continued until
later. MIR. Ansley Hardy having gone
on his bond.
George =. McKagen asked that
his case be postponed until he could
get counsel and he was given until to-
morrow morning at 10 a. m. Messrs.
Claude Hogan and Brown having
gone on his bond.
The case against Henry Sumter was
then called up. Henry plead not
guilt, TO the charge of selling liquor,
but the evidence against him was
strong enough to convict him
OF the charge and to make
tho Recorder give him a SEN
tence OF 500 or 80 days The witness
es In the case being j. C. Dunning
one Of the detectives who was secur,
ed TO work up the cases against the
blind tigers OF the city.
c. c. Moore was then brought up
on the charge OF storing whiskey on
the End and 5th OF January. two cases
being brought against him. which he
most vigorously denied. Again Nose
ley and Dunning. the two detectives
were put on the stand and told how
they had bought drinks OF whiskey
from him on the two days mentioned
In the warrants. Moore denied that
he had ever kept any whiskey In his
store. but admitted that ne did bus
IL whenever he had the money with
which TO order II. lie said that hC
had given away the whiskey which
officor McKagen said that he had SEN
TO him a few days before Christmas
but little later his clerk claimed tha
no whIskey had ever been brought e
the store for any purpose. Despit,
Moore's denial and affirmations to tn,
contrary. he was found guilty anC