The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-03

Laverty, Nathan Clancy, Thoma
Brown and Dennis Henry. The las
> named was very much under the lnfiu
ence of liquor, as he staggered consider
ably. The proprietorlof the hotel, Ed
ward Halleran, took Henry by the arm
and led him from the hotel. Other meI
who got beer when under the influence
of liquor were Frank Bishop and John
Donlin. A young man named Arthel
w. Furter, who said he was % years Of
age, got beer at the bar.
| On cross-examination witness said he
was opposed to the sale of liquor under
any and all circumstances.
John L. Owen, of Maple Shade, ac-
companied the former witness on his
visits to the hotel and corroborated the
evidence of Mr.. Brubaker.
William b. Cook, of Haddon Heights,
head of detective agency, saw disorder
ly men at Coles hotel; there was loud
talk and swearing in the barroom. He
saw three drunken men in the hotel
yard and saw intoxicated men served at
the bar.
On cross-examination witness said Mr..
Coles paid the expenses and salaries of
all detectives employed.
Charles Marshall, of Camden, de-
tective, related similar evidence. He
admitted on cross-eXamination that he
did not find much intoXication at Coles
hotel; not nearly so much as at the other
hotel.
John l.. Collins, another detective, re-
lated similar story of disorder and of
selling to persons under the influence of
liquor.
On cross-examination this witness ad-
mitted that he had lied in letter writ
ten to Arthur Furter in order to obtain
definitely the boys age. In this letter
Collins wrote that he wanted to employ
Furter to play base ball at salary, and
enclosed number of questions for Fur
ter to answer, among them being about
date of birth. AS matter of fact, wit
ness stated, he had no intention of hir-
ing the boy to play ball.
Harry Chase and Bayard Griffin, two
other detectives, the latter colored
man, corroborated the other detectives
evidence.
Arthur w. Furter testified that he
was IS years of age and that he had
bought glass of beer at Coles hotel on
several occasions. The first time he
asked for beer he was questioned about
his age by the proprietor, Mr.. Halleran.
Witness represented that he was %
years of age next July, which was
falsehood
William McElwee said he was arrested
on February 3D. for drunkenness. He
claimed he did not get the liquor at this
hotel, getting only single drink there
that day, which was the first one of that
jag.
James J. O'Brien, of Maple Shade,
said he had not been intoxicated for
over two years. He has bought beer
and whiskey at this hotel.
John l.. Owen, recalled, stated that on
November 29th he saw William Nc
Elwee buy glass of whisl<ey at the
hotel.
The defence admitted that the age of
Furter is 10 years, so no witnesses were
called to prove that point.
A number of witnesses testified that
Joseph H. Lippincott, Daniel Maust,
Dennis Henry, Thomas Brown, John
Laverty, James j. O'Brien, Matthias
Clancy, Frank Bishop and John Donlin
had regulations in the community as
having confirmed incorporate habits,
all of whom, according to the evidence of
and detectives, had bought
liquor at Coles hotel.
The witnesses who testified to the
character of those above named as be-
ing incorporate, were: Walter Moore,
Aubrey Walton, Harvey NJ. Roberts,
Horace Roberts, Bertram Edgar, Harold
c. Plum, A. r. Broadwater, DIR. Stokes.
Henry c. Herr, Emmor Roberts, Clay
ton l.. Andrews, Elwood Hollingshead,
George Heaton, II. b. Coles, Robert
simpson, Frank Stowe, Henry C. bud
ley and A. J. Roberts.
The compliments then announced
their case was concluded
Ex-Judge Wescott moved that the
case be dismissed, which was refused.
The hotel people called a number of
Mi I'm
namely, that none of them, dur
ing visits to the barroom and other parts
of the property had seen any drunken
ness or disorder, and that it was we'll
kept, orderly, respectable house. A
large majority Of the witnesses denied
that Lippincott, Maust, Henry, Brown
and Others had the reputation in the
of having confirmed intern
perate habits. They said they had
never heard the mems habits discussed.
The witnesses who testified to the good
character of the hotel were: Alfred Davis,
George Wurst, William Workman,
James Madden, Dennis Ryan, George
E. Lippincott, Edward O'Donnell, Her
bert Alcott, Michael Downs, Robert
Jackson, John Gallagher, John Convery
John T. Evans, John Hoskins, Oscar
Heulings Brown, Clarence
Ward and Frank Speer.
Saturday morning John Gibson was
called to the stand and said he had fire.
quently been in Hallerans hotel, gen
orally Saturday evenings, and he
thought the place was conducted very
nicely. He stayed from half hour to
an hour each time.
Louis Wiegand, hostler at the hotel,
had lived there three years. He had
seen a few people around the yards of
the hotel who were under the influence
of liquor, but he did not know where
they got their liquor. He had seen peo-
pie drink from bottles under the wagon
sheds. He knew several of the men
mentioned as of confirmed incorporate
habits and he had seen them under the
influence of liquor. He had told Mr..
Halleran about the men drinking under
the sheds and the proprietor and he
talked to the men, who went away, but
came back later and did the same thing.
He had seen two of the men named as
confirmed incorporates" served with
liquor in the hotel while under the in
fluence of drink.
Alexander Hewston was never at the