The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-24
JUDGE MOONEY HEARING EVI ! DENcE OF PROCESS SERVER
 FOR THE PRoHlBlTIoNISTS.
RULE ON RETURNED LETTERS
indications that the Decision Win ! Not Be Reached Today, if Judge
 Mooney Permits Evidence to Con
 tinue Relative to Residence.

l. Process servers, acting as agents for the Hot Springs Temperance Lea que, testifying before the coun,y court will probably bring the con 1 tention to a close, as to whether or not Hot Springs will have liquor li- tcenses here or not.
 Yesterday J. A. Campbell, the first of these, was on the stand during ] the entire afternoon session, and was still on the stand at the close of court He had gone around to vari- .ous addresses given by sfgners of he petitions, and had made inquiry as to the signers.
 His report while hearsay evidence in a measure, is still recognized as competent by Judge Mooney to de- termine at least whether the par ties were al the addresses that were given by them on the petition when hey signed.
 ] A well known rule of law that hearsay evidence is not permissible is recognized by the attorneys and court, therefore there is doubt as to the effectiveness of all the evidence being gone over, though it served yesterday to bring to the view of the court at least some names that will most likely be eliminated from con sideration on the petitions.
 There were probably thirty indi- vidua1 cases where the evidence of the process server for the prOhibi- tionists was sufGcint to convince Judge Mooney that the names should be stricken from the petitions, but there were probably 400 names gone over during the day.
 Some of these Campbell testified, were not at the addresses given, oth- CTS had been there but had removed; some. he stated, he was told, were not residents; some, he said, he was told, had never been at the place, and in some instances he reported that the addresses given could not be found.
 There was also some contention as to persons residing just outside the city limits signing the petitions, and the court took judicial knowl- edge of the official limits of the city. determining these questions for him. self to shorten the case.
 Attorneys Sumpter and Mcconnell had a large box of about 800 en- velopes which had been sent out to names on the petitions, and which had been returned through the post office unopened They had kept these undelivered letters to offer as proof that the parties were not at the resi- dences set forth.
 The first envelope was that which had been addressed to Ilia Trammell, | Malvern avenue Assistant Postmas- ter James Demby was called as witness, and he said that letter had passed through the hands of letter carrier No. 12, who was a colored 1 man. The letter had evidently been taken to the number indicated, and when the party was not found there, was returned to the sender.
 "When the party is not at the ad- dress. the envelope is returned?" in ouired Attorney Wilmington.
 Dr. Demby stated that was the pro- eedure.
 "And no effort is made to find the
 owner of the letter at some other
 address within the city?'
 "No, sir"
 Attorney Wilmington then stated
 that to shorten the case, the side of
 the petitioners would admit that all +be parties to whom the communica- 1 lions had been addressed and return
 ed unopened were subject to the l same evidence. The attorneys for
 the petitioners do not regard this IS
 any evidence whatever that the par
 tv 10 whom the communication is ad-
 dressed is not white adult inhaoi-
 tant of the city.
 There are said to be two or three
 more process servers for the Tenn nerance League who the attorneys for the remonstrators will want 10
 introduce in evidence and if this IS
 done the cases will not be decided
 today, as had been hoped for. The
 fact that the evidence given by the
 nrocess servers is not final evidence, and that there will have to be cross examination as to some of the names lJn6icates that it Is doubtful when