The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-21
City Losing Money.

comparison with the fine list, made
up from the records, the two parties
you mentioned, indeed, went out Oh
business only since the policy Of raid
ing began. They paid, or were sched-
uled to pay, fines up to the time Wt2en
Our raids began. The fact that L.
Williams died some months ago. as
you said, only proves the tenacity with
which the liquor business persisted in
Charleston; for l can tell you that on
March s a summons was issued call
! ing him into court for violating the
liquor law, although he had died on
February ?. The place which 'ce ran
didn't die, which is the point in issue.
AT this time the policy of raiding, un-
der which We abandoned the service
of all summonses; tie summons pol
icy, as you know, being merely CON
donement of law-breaking, and, of
! course, incompatible with the new
policy that you have compelled US to
adopt, and under which so many
thousands Of dollars are lost to the
city in fines; but under which 1 am
afraid some blind tigers will still ex-
ist. When raiding began lie business
owned by ]. Williams was still going
on with liquor adjunct, and was raid
ed by the police and, ceased to exist,
not on account of Mr. Williams un-
. timely taking off, but simply because.
his immediate successor decided that
for reasons Of peace he. would no
! longer wear the shroud of Williams in
the liquor business. am advised that
the place Which Mr. Williams once
kept, and which is still conducted by
his estate, managed by one Of his i'm
mediate relatives, has, until very late
ly, and after his death, sold liquor,
and sold it until the policy Of raiding
began, and that it was given up SIM
ply and solely because of the policy
of raiding, and not because Mr.. Will
liams was dead.
CAS- to tie case of Hackett, it ap-
pears from the records of the fire de-
partment that his place caught fire on
April and from the records of the
police court that it was partially
burned Before this the police had
persistently raided it, and lie was so
discouraged that he said he was 60
ing to give up business which, so far
as the liquor end of it was concerned,
the police department has every rea-
son to believe had really happened be-
fore the fire occurred. In a Sort while
thereafter the place took fire. SYou
can draw your own conclusions wneth-
er or not the close sequence Of the
fire had had any relation to the per-
sistent raid of the police force But
tie fact remains that before the fire,
and because of the raids, he did go out
of the liquor business, which is as the
chief of police has reported.
'GNone of US mortaIs can know
whether poor Lewie' Williams, who
died in Greece On February 2, but VITO
was up to that time running a liquor
business, even from that great dis
tance, in Charleston, thereupon went
/! to his eternal reward or went to that
place of everlasting fire. which was
only intended for very bad people, un-
like us. Being very good people our
selves, we can, without presumption,
assume that he must certainly Lave
met with the latter fate. If so, then
my only comment is that, notwitn-
! standing the eternal fire, Mr. Will
liams, through his I.eirs, still persisted
in the liquor business until the police
raids began. After TIE police raids
began Mr.. Hackett's liquor business
! ceased to exist, and in few days his
general business was completely de-
molished by fire. In neither the case
of the Hackett fire ihere nor the Will
liams fire hereafter, did the fire have
anything to do with their going. Each
went out of business because ne was
raided out I stand upon the report
of the chief.
'By the way, in the list of those fur
nished by me as being in business some
time ago by you, do you not recall
that, as I showed you in Columbia,
there was the name of one man dead
for three years? If because Williams
is dead, you conclude he is no longer
in business, why do you not apply the
same inference to your own list, which
J you told me you had gotten from re
J liable sources?
"I hope I have covered these two
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