St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-06-27
I LAW VIOLATION IS
GENERAL In PARISH
Grand Jury Returns Thirty-One True Bills
Against Saloon Keepers-O Nine In
Parish Escape.

were required to carry on this
business and considering further
that no one compelled or induced
them to engage in such a business
we are unable to appreciate the
justice of their plea for special
privileges.
We earnestly request the CO.
operation of all the officers,
whether parish, ward or NUM-
cipal, in a rigid enforcement of
this Statute and that where any
officer shows a disposition to pro-
tect violators of this Statute that
the necessary action be taken to
distitute him of his trust.
In this connection we desire to
report that we have gathered
from or Investigations, that the
violation of this Statute is by no
means confined to the retail liquor
dealers.
We are informed that retail
grocers under the pretense of
selling fruit, cakes, bread and
other such articles of food as are
permitted to be sold on Sunday,
and drugstores under the guise
Of selling drugs, are selling pro-
miscuously, on Sunday, from the
stock of grocery and notions car
ried in stock by them. This we
believe to be a violation of the
Sunday law and are informed
that the Supreme Court of our
state has so held in interpreting
this, Status.
We would therefore urge that
all officers give special attention
to the enforcement of the law. in
this respect, and that all grocers
who carry on a fruit business or
bakery business, and all drug
stores that carry on a general
notion busines be required to
comply with Statute, and that if
they wish to avail themselves of
the exemptions as fruit vendors,
bakers and druggists, that these
business be carried on separate
and apart from that of the gro
Gerry and notion business.
On account of the large num-
Der of witnesses necessary to a
proper inquiry into this feature
of the laws violation, and our de-
sire to make this investigation
general and sweeping, we have
decided to postpone this inquiry
to our next meeting. In the
meantime we urge on all officers
to be on the alert, to the end that
they may assist US in bringing
such violators to justice.
We request that a copy OF this
part of our report be sent to the
Mayor and Chief of Police OF
each Incorporated town or village
and in the usual districts to each
Sustice of the Peace and Ward
Constable.
We desire to express to our
Police Jurors, our appreciation
Of their determination to cooper
ate with the law officer in the en-
forcement Of the -Shattuck
Law; as manifested by their reso.
lutions a copy of which was
handed in by their president.
We present, herewith, thirty.
one indictments for violation OF
the Sunday Law and earnestly
hope that this presented, will
spare up the unpleasant duty OF
again presenting them for any
future violation Of the same
statutes. However If they persist
and throw down the gate of de.
fiance, we can assure them that
we will feel no conjunction in
taking it up.
We desire TO thank the court
and its officers for the assistance
accorded us at our present ses'
sion and respectfully beg to be
discharged until such time as
your Honor may see fit.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. ANDING, Foreman.
Filed June "a, 1914.
C. T. BAILEY, Dy. Clerk.
True bills were found against
the following saloon-keepers
Antoine Speyer, George Rup.
pert, Remi Wallior, Allen Sandoz
and Willie Ardoin, JOS Lassalle.
Valliere Wyble, Adolphe Cormier
Hypolite Miller, Joe DeVargas
Ben Christman, Leonard Prejean,
Sam Carlo, Numa Bertrand, R
R. Miller, Pete Martel, Johr
Nico, Albert Andrus, Leon ant
Abe Goudchaux, Atanas Manuel
Francois Fontenot, Leon Pitre
Frank Doucet, M. F. Budd, A
D. Smith, L. Tridico, U. S. Fish
er and w. P. Baldridge, Ben Do
nato, Frank Rougeau. Franl
Fuselier, Guillory. Gustave Fusi
lier, Paul Fusilier.