Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-19
LIQUOR SOLD ON
CREDIT OVER BAR
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Brown who had written the letters
were in vain. OF the five men of that
name in the city directory, every one
had been looked up and none admitted
having written the letters.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
writer himself couldn't be found to
substantiate his contentious, James A.
Stranahan, counsel for the Civic
Council of Federated Churches in
sisted that the fact the questions had
been raised was sufficient to permit an
Interrogation of the saloonkeepers in
question, and President Judge Kun
kel sustained him. In the good
natured tits between counsel as to
the relevancy of admitting the let
ters, Lyman d. Gilbert playfully sug-
gested that James A. Stranahan may
have hidden MIR. Brown in his
office.
The more startling evidence, per-
hapS, was offered against A. l.. Taylor,
701-07 Cumberland street, though the
others mentioned in the Brown" let
ters-Jacob Simonetti. 401-03 Ver-
beke; George Kobler. 1882 North Sixth
street, and Ferdinand MoeSlein, Sixth
and Verbeke-were also questioned on
the Witness stand. Mrs. Daniel Fra
Itch. wife of a Pennsylvania Railroad
engineer. was the chief witness against
Taylor. Most of them have been
licensees for years.
The only other case heard this
morning was that of Anna Rakovsky.
527 Race street, and in the course of
against Patrick It. Sullivan, this city,
John Shupp and David Baker, Steel
ton, and several of the applicants from
out in the county were on the list for
Il hearing.
Before the hearings were begun
President Judge Kunkel announced
that all the applications against which
no remonstrances had been filed and
which had been heretofore privileged
could continue throughout 1914. The
applicant for the relicensing of the
Fletcher House, Steelton, was made
by Alfred Fletcher, son of the origi-
nal licensee, and as there was no re-
monstrance against this place the re-
licensing was granted. March 16 was
fixed for hearing the application Of II.
e. Mclaughlin for the relicensing Of
the Mountain House, Jackson town
ship, because the hotel has burned
down and is now in course of recon-
struction.
TAYLOR was first to admit that he
sometimes sold liquor on credit.
DO you keep a book account, a
credit book?" inquired Mr.. Stranahan.
mo. not exactly"
Are not some of your patrons to
whom you sell on credit railroaders?
"Some of them, yes, sir, L believe"
DO you sell them on credit?'
Uses Register Slips
Not exactly. If man comes in
and gets a drink and says he'll pay
me in the morning or the next even
ing, why. / use a register slip.
do you keep a monthly account
with any of them?'
mo. sir"
Ever sell to any persons intoxi-
cated?"
NO. sir
Mrs. F'ralich followed Taylor on
the stand and her testimony set the
courtroom a-buZzing.
Her husband. Daniel she said, is a
Pennsy engineer and he had run
monthly liquor bills at Taylor's. she
declared, that totaled as much as $40
a month. She had sent Mr.. Taylor
notices by constables, she said, COM
handing him not to sell any more
LIQUOR to her husband. A few days
after her husband returned home in
toxicated and said he got the liquor at
Taylor's.
"He said" declared Mrs. Fralich.
Taylor If II broke up our home
rs your husband ever intoxicated
when he goes out on the road?" Mr..
Stranahan asked.
"Why, I've known him to go out on
the road when l don't think he's been
fit. He doesn't work, only when he
wants to. He's told me lot of times
that he doesn't need to If he doesn't
want to, that he can get hundred or
fifty or twenty-five dollars from Tay-
lor whenever he wants 1t"
Counsel for Taylor tried to show
that Mrs. Fralich and her husband
frequently had family rows due to
Mr.. Fralich's love of liquor. A po-
llceman was called to testify as to
having been ordered to settle one of
the disputes at the Fralich home. Incl
dentally Taylor denied emphatically
all Of the allegations of Mrs. Fralich.
The other three men against whom
the inquiry was directed admitted that
they had conducted no extensive sys-
TENS of credit, but had occasionally
trusted a patron from one evening to
another if he didn't have the money
to pay at the time of purchase
Dr. John II. Eager, A
-, declared that
y q III the beer district"