The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-05-18
License Cases.

License Cases.
Tuesday was taken up with hearing
d the application. of John d. Stellman FOL
g restoration to him of the licenses to sell
liquor by retail and wholesale at Ewes
] boro. They were taken from him year
]. ago. Evidence was submitted to show
, that Stellman's place is at the junction
: of nine roads in Evesham township and
D is great convenience to travellers who
) desire to stop and feed their horses, give
: them water and to get refreshment and
meals for themselves. 1t was shown
that there had been move to provide
J accommodations for watering horses at
a point not much further along the
: road and that there is hotel at Marlton
not over mile away.
After number of witnesses had been
examined to show the necessity for the
place the case took another turn. Sena-
tor Avis, who was representing the re-
monstrants, offered the novel plea that
an applicant could not renew his appli-
cation until year had elapsed after he
had been refused a license. Mr. Avis
said the license to Stellman was refused
April % last year, while the application
to renew was dated April 27 this year.
This was very fine point, and Judge
Lippincott postponed the further hear
ing of the case until Thursday, when
the point offered as well as the testimony
of the applicant will pc taken up.
1t had been expected that the applica-
ton of Edward Dock to keep hotel at
Centreton would have been completed
on Tuesday, but the Stellman case
crowded it out and it was laid over until
Friday.
| MoORESTOWN LICENSE APPLICATION
| On Wednesday the court room was
crowded by those who were drawn by
desire to hear the evidence in the remon-
strances against granting licenses to the
Moorestown hotels. Edward Hallerans
case was taken up first.
The remonstrants and those who testi-
fed against the granting of the licenses
were among the best citizens of the
town, and their testimony was chiefly
confined to the necessity for a hotel.
This was based on the conditions that
existed prior to the taking away of the
license formerly enjoyed by Mr.. Halleran !
and those since that time. The evidence
was mainly along one line, to the effect
that prior to April, 1914. it was notice
able that large crowds were on the
streets, principally in front of the hotel,
that there was loud talking, with pro-
fame and indecent language, and that
intoxicated persons were frequently
seen, although it could not be said that
they got their liquor at Halleran's.
Since that time there has been marked
improvement and it has not been un-
pleasant to go past the hotel or along
the streets in any locality.
While the majority of the witnesses
for the remonstrants were opposed to the
sale of liquor at any place, some of them
thought that license, under the law,
with restrictions placed by the court,
might be of advantage at other places
than Moorestown. In reply to ques-
lions by Judge Lippincott the answers
were that if majority of citizens of
any town were in favor of a license, and
the law allowed the court to exercise dis
cretion in the matter, it would appear
to be matter of necessity for such
privilege to be granted.
One witness, in telling of the changed
conditions, said he saw one day a man
come from Coles hotel, walking very
unsteadily, and outside was waiting the
mans wife. She remarked: "You are a
pretty fellow and you are in nice con-
dition to go to your nephew's funeral"
Later, the witness, who was a clergy
man, was preaching the funeral sermon
and was compelled to tell this man to
keep quiet, as he insisted on interrupt
ing the speaker. On cross examination
the witness said he could not say that
the man got whiskey at Coles hotel,
and did not know how long he was in
the place.
Other witnesses told how men had
been in the custom of working for them,
drawing their wages before the weeks
end, and then not coming to work.
Since the licenses were revoked the men
always seemed to have money, and on
one occasion one Of these men who had
always been short of cash, offered to
change $50 bill. None of these wit
nesses, however, could say that the men
got their drink at Coles hotel.
There were a large number of wit
nesses and their testimony all tended in
one direction and there was very little !,
variation in it, All were agreed that /,
there is necessity in Moorestown for a
house to accommodate the travelling
public and some of them said they were
willing to contribute towards such an
enterprise.
For the applicant there was the usual
amount of testimony to show that a
public house is a necessary and that q
hotel without bar privileges is losing
Elwood G. Worrell, who
hotel in Florida, said it is i'm
possible to conduct house without a
guarantee of a certain number of guests
at stated price for board, every day.
Other witnesses showed that Coles hotel
is SO located and so conducted as to be a
great accommodation to the travelling
public. They thought that with
cessation of the events that had caused
the revocation of the license there
would not be any more cause for COM
plant, All of the witnesses on both sides
gave Mr.. Halleran the highest recon-
mendation as person to conduct
hotel.
Mr.. Halleran, the applicant, took the
stand, and told why he was applying for
license to sell liquor. He showed that
it is impossible to run such house as
he conducts and maintain it entirely on
the board to pay expenses. He said he
had before him the causes which resulted
in his losing his license and he had re-
Trained from asking for wholesale
license, in fact he had decided that If he
were again given the privilege to sell |