The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-18
INDIAN ON TRIAL.
Nanzetta, the Well Known In
dian Medicine Man, Indict-
ed in Several Cases-Case
Tried Tuesday Results
In MiStrial.

iSNhStiiS iiioh, WIN IldS USSIl
'roclaiming the merits of his
medicines for several years on
the streets of the town. was ar
rested Saturday under the state
law in three several cases, charg-
ing him with violating the stat
ute AS to hawkers and peddlers
md later on that same day was
arrested by Chief Orr on w.
charges for violating the town
ordinances, one for disorder.y
and boisterous conduct and for
selling or offering for sale, as
hawker, his goods without TAX
ing out a license as hawker.
The case tried Tuesday was
for the alleged violating of the
clause in the town license ordin-
ance as to hawkers of goods.
The evidence showed that the de-
fendant secured from the act
ing city clerk and treasurer a
license to advertise his medic
ines on the streets of the town
paying therefor five dollars. He
contended that he sells his goods
direct to druggists and that he
was in Lancaster not for the
purpose of selling to the public
but of advertising his medicines
which are on sale at the Midway
Drug Co. and the Lancaster
Pharmacy. His method is to pro-
claim the merits of his medi-
cines from an automobile, tell
ing his hearers that if they
would buy a bottle at the
drug store and come back to
him with a card stamped at the
drug store to show that the pur
chase of bottle of the medicine
had been made, he would give
the holder of the ticket a free
bottle of liniment.
SO the main question in the
case was whether the defendant
was selling as a hawker or ped
dler, or whether he was merely
advertising his goods. The Ma
yor charged the jury that, I'M
der the law. to constitute the de-
fcndant a hawker or peddler
they must find that he was an
itinerant trader, carrying medi
ines through the streets, from
town to town and from place to
place, selling or offering the
same for sale; that if at the time
of the alleged offense the de-
fendant was merely advertising
certain medicines, manufacture
ed by him and kept for sale. not
on his own account, by drug
stores in the county of Lancaster
then he was neither a hawker
nor peddler under the ordin-
ance of the town ard would not
he liable to licer so imposed on
hawkers or peddlers. The towns
contention was that the stamp
ed tickets, represented a value
and that the defendant was IL
able for selling under the haw-
kers nnd peddlers license.
The case was stubbornly
fought on both sides and Great
ed unusual interest, as was evid-
enced by the large crowd in at
tendance at the court house.
1t should have been stated
earlier that the defendant. as
soon as he was arrested and had
@iven bond, would continue op~
erations.
Col. T. Y. Williams and Roach
s. Stewart represented the town
and Claud N. Sanp. John T.
Green and R. e. Wylie the de-
fendant. After deliberatinq for
some time the jury returned in
to court reporting that they
could not agree on a verdict and
nistrial was ordered.
The other cases have all been
continued until the 18th instant.
The defendant gave the bond ra-
quired for his appearance at the
trials and returned yesterday to
his home in Greenville.
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