The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-05-02
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Before granting the licenses of Rich
ard w. Harker and Edwin c. Stead
Judge Lippincott called the applicants
to the bar and had talk with them.
He said he had received complaints
from some persons who claimed that the
law was being violated by both men. In
the case of Mr.. Harker the writer of the
letter stated he sold liquor to men
known as habitual drunkards and that
he also sold to men under the influence
of liquor. Another charge was that
while he refused to sell to certain per-
sons he allowed others to purchase and
carry out to those who were tagged. y
Mr.. Harker denied all of these impeach-
ments. With reference to two or three
said he had not sold TO them for several
years. He declared that the writer of
the letter was prohibition crank -
Judge Lippincott said that while there
was not any remonstrancs against Har-
ker the letter must be taken notice of |
He had informed the writer what she
should do and that she ought to have
been in court, but she did not seem to |
care to go that far. The Judge said he
recalled that tie testimony in the re-
monstrance against John Davis, of |
Browns Mills. was that men who could |
not buy at the latter place went to
Pointville and got their liquor. The
Judge said he wanted it distinctly I'M
derstood that a hotel keeper must not be
content to sit quietly in his place of
business and be careless to what is going
on outside. He must keep an eye open
to every transaction, and when liquor is
sold to be carried out of the barroom
there should be watch kept to see that
it is not delivered to persons who could
not purchase it.
In the case of Mr.. Stead the writer
complained that the hotel man did not
accommodate the travelling public and
would not put himself to any trouble to
serve meals at what he considered un-
seasonable hours There was also COM
plant that there was too much noise
around the hotel. Stead denied all the
accusations and promised that there
should not be any cause for complaint
in the future.
In granting the application Of Edward
Halleran, of Moorestown, Judge Lippin-
colt said he did not often receive COM
plants that gave him pleasure, but in
this case he had been very much pleased |
to hear that Mr.. Halleran had refused to |
do something that might look like
breaking the law. When the license was
granted to the Moorestown man he
agreed of his own accord not to sell any
liquor to be carried out of the hotel. |
The complaint made to Judge Lippin-
colt was that man wanted some LIQUOR
to be used incidentally and Mr.. Halleran |
refused to let him have it. This aroused |
the indignation Of the customer, who |
wanted to know what licenses were for,
anyhow" Judge Lippincott told Mr..
Halleran he approved of his action and |
that he now proposed to remove the
embargo on carrying liquor out of the
hotel on the condition that the hotel
man or his employees knew it was to be
used incidentally. He would put this
part of the matter up to the license
holder.
John ID. Stellman, who was refused a
license some time ago, applied for a
wholesale license. He made statement
to the court and said there was quite a
demand for place at Evesboro where
people could purchase liquor at whole
sale. Since the refusal to grant him
license those wanting liquor in large
quantities had been compelled to go to
Philadelphia or Camden to get their
goods. He also said that wagons from
Camden come into the neighborhood
and deliver liquors. Judge Lippincott
said Stellman should give information
on such actions t. the prosecutor of the
pleas, to which Stellman said, II do not
see where / would gain anything by
turning informer." The Judge said
there was something beyond personality
in this matter, that Stellman had duty
to perform as public citizen.
Henry A. Lehman wanted license to
sell by wholesale in Fieldsboro. He was
asked for his reasons and he said there
had been difficulty for persons to get
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they wanted cool beer they had to buy
it and take it home and put it on ice,
possibly having to buy ice for the pur-
pose. Another reason was that the hotels
had heretofore been kept down to one
kind of beer when customers sometimes
wanted variety. you know" he
said, that tastes differ in the matter of
drinking as we'll as in eating" He was
asked if he had any witnesses to show
that there is necessity for another
place at Fieldsboro, and he said he did
not believe he could strengthen his case
by any further testimony.
The Judge said the disposition of the
court is to increase the number of !
licenses only when a necessity is shown I
for such an act. In this case he did not
think anything had been offered to show
a necessity, and he refused the applica
ton. In the Stellman case the applicant
insisted on having his witnesses heard,
so he will be allowed to have them in
court.
John Polisky applied for, wholesale /
and retail license in Cambridge, and |
May 26 was fixed as the date on which |
this case would be heard. aIel
The trial of Albert Haines, for at
tempting to kill William p Bryan, was |
set down for the tenth of May.
Lost, this morning, on High or Brain
ard street, bar pin set with white and |
nurple stonaS Tho finder is aakad tn ra |