Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-02-13

from the table where the patrons were
drinking there?
A. Yes sir.
O.. Did you ever take any glass from
the table where Mr.. Mcdonald had drank
during this time.
A.. l do not remember. ! don't think
| did. no sir.
9. Who did that? Who would take
the glasses from the table?
\. do not remember of the chief OF
Police drinking from tho tables.
G. Flow were you able to identify the
particular glass he drank from?
\. When he came in there he was
usually alone, usually the only one III
the store. .
Q. so tina when YOU testify that some
times there were a dozen you don't refer
to the Chief of Police being in there anu
drinking ut those times?
A.. No sir.
CoMMIssTONER HINCKLEY:
9. Was it customary for patrons com
Ing in there sometimes to complain Of be
ing sick and wanting something specific
in the way Of medicine or a dose that YOU
or the rest Of the people in the store
would fix for them?
\. Yes sir.
@. Did you ever hear the Chief com
plain when he came in that he was moi
feeling yell or wanted something par
ticularly?
-. M Sl.
.. He always carlc in and called fol
What he wanted?
4. Never heard him call for it.. Seem
cd to be an understanding between him
and Mr.. Breslow.
Q. 1t Is your position that If the Chief
came in that was all he came In for
to get o drink, and went right out"
\. Came in to use the telephone quite
often.
0. But he didn't have to take a drink
when he used the telephone?
4. No sir.
commissioners PATTERSON:
.. The ;cnly knowledge you have OF H.
Cuor being there Is by the smell?
A.. Saw the name on the bottle.
COMMISSIONER HTNCKLEY:
9. Wou1d, that necessarily mean tina
there was Mhiskey in the bottle?
A.. | have smclled the glass that had
whiskey in that came from that bottle
MIR. REGISTER:
G.. What was the color Of the materia
in the bottle? 49,.
\. Erown-the color OF whtskey: Kln'
of brownish. Kind of reddish brown.
O.. You unpackcd q number of pack
ages there during that time YOU worked
there?
A.. Yes sir.
9. And what were they labeled
Whisky?
o. Did you know anything abou,
whiskey before you went to Breslow':
to work?
A. No sir.
commissioners H'NckLEY:
how it smelled:
A. Broke some bottles there one day
q. Would you have known the dlifer'
ence if they had broken u ~turpentine bot
tie?
A.. Yes sir.
@. You would llayc known the differ
cncc in the smell? =
cross. ExAm'NAT'oN.
BY MIR. HANLEY:
G. what were you specific duties
4. Supposed to keep the floor clean.
@. Sweeping the floor?
A.. Yes sir. t.-
ek@=V=sYou were not d salesman in an!
sense Of the word? .a .
a. No SIR.
q. was ii you duty to mix drinks?
g.. Sold some drinks at the fountain
Q.f3ut only at such times when the!
were very busy?
a. Yes sir.
Q. Was that rare or often tllat you
sold drinks"
@. you worked just mornings and ev'
enings after school?
4. Yes sir.
Q. When you came to work there
would be an accumulation OF glasses fo'
you to wash?
a. Yes sir.
@. It was not your practice to stant
right there at the fountain and wash thu
glasses as each sale was made?
o. You would be doing other worl
and come around to the fountain occa'
sionally and find an accumulation O
glasses there and wash them and then q
to your other work?
A.. Yes sir. .
@. Were you ever behind the fountain
the fountain?
4. Yes sir.
o. Many times or not?
t.. Not very often. | said two or three
times q week.
o., am specifically. calling your at
tention to where you were when you say
you were behind the fountain at the time
the drinks were given to the Chief?
A.. ] was behind the fountain. yes sir
@. How many times?
A.. TWO or three times a week.
O., What you desire to say to the com
mission here is that about each time the
Chief came In there to get a drink you
were behind the counter or fountain:
A.. No sir.
q. Was It most of the time?
n. O8UulAN NCS oil.
O. Usually behind the fountain, your
self?
4. I IAN remember specific instances
Q. The greater portion Of the time yor
were behind there? "
A. was in different parts of the store
but I can remember specifically OF being
behind there when the Chief drank a.
the fountain.
q. Was that more than once?
A.. Yes sir.
q. Was 1t often or not?
4. Would not say often. :,
q. Would you say three times a week:
A. No sir.
@. was 1t a good many times?
A.. No sir.
O.. And at the time that you now men
ton that you were behind the fountain
when the drink wa sgiven to the Chic
Iyou did not see any whiskey put into his
glass?
A. No sir.
o. You did not see a bottle taken VI
and anything poured into 1t from tha'
bottle?s
A.. No.
@. 50 MIR. Breslow got down under the
fountain and poured it out there?
q. All Of the drinks in the fountain
are under the top Of the slab on top?
A. Yes sir.
G. Whether it is coca cola, s~arsaparil'
Ia or anything else the glass has to &c
A.. Yes sir. I mean by under the foun'
tain, there is a space below this on the
q. Hut as a matter Of fact. Mr.. Young
all Of the drinks served at that fountain
are under the top OF the top slab?
A. Except hat bottle.
O.. That is under IS 1t not?
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