Weekly journal-miner., 1916-02-02
SUPERIOR COURT
 ROOM FILLED WITH BOOZE
(From Sundays Daily.I

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 With the courtroom filled with 273 bottles of beer, B p;nts, two quarts and three five-gallon dimijohns of whiskey. the trial Of John Barant on charge of bootlegging, which started yesterday. took on comical aspect from the start and with the testimony of many Of the witnesses including the defendant who spoke in Dutch brogue. the jury. the attorneys, the spectators and even the judge at times broke into smiles and laughter.
 "Dutch John" the defendant, took the stand in his own Sehalf after the State had rested and said that ne had not sold bottle of whiskey to any of the many witnesses who accused him Of that offense "I have been a car penter for the past ten years in Pres cott.' said Barant. "and on the side raise chickens. about $50 a year. l eat most of them myself but sell a great many. which brings many peo- pie to my home. Before January l. 1915. I purchased 25 gallons of whis- key and 50 cases of beer from Cap tain Dodge for my own use. I drink TWO Dllll DULLES Ol d ud anu four bottles of beer without i'll effects. That is. when I have them. On the night 1 was arrested by Marks and BoZarth. Moore came Into the room short time before and pulled a bot tie Of malt tonic out of his pocket and asked me to nave drink. I told him that l did not like malt A few seconds later the officers came in and when they searched Moore they found three bottles of beer Where he got them I don't know. He did not get them from me and he must nave had them when he came into the house. One night Moore brought Reiff around to the house and told me thai he wanted to get subscriptions for magazines. After a short time they asked me to sell them some whiskey. I told them I wouldn't and that I never sold any to anybody. Moore said. you won't sell while two men are around will you:' said no. and that I would not sell to one man or six of them One afternoon 1 was down at Dillon's cigar store and Moore called me up on the stairs in the building and he pulled a bottle of whiskev from his pocket and gave me drink"
 Moore rents house on the same lot that Barant does, according to the testimony. Barant continued: "Thc key to the door in my house and the one that Moore lives in are the same and 1 have missed number of bot ties of whiskey and beer from my house
 "Maude Brooks. negress," the dc ! fendant said, never bought any whis- key from me but has bought chickens a number Of times He said it woulI take an expert to keep track Of all the fowls the ncgress purchased. "A. B. Noxon," the defcnGant said. ''camc to my house on night 'half-shot' and wanted to buy some whiskey I told him that 1 would not sell him any and I left the house. When I came back he had taken bottle of wniskcy that I had setting on the kitchen table" Cross-examination of Barant by County Attorney O'Sullivan and his deputy. ]. II. Morgan. will be started at 9:30 o'clock Monday morn ing when court convcnes.
 His Cook.
 Dona Bowen, the other witness for the defense. stated nat for three months before Barant was arrested she cooked his meals for him. She got $l per day for acting as cook for him. Morgan asked the witness il sne did not know that Barant started in the liquor business after the first of the year 1915. She replied: From the evidence l have heard at the trial today l presume that he did
 Wanted Directed Verdict.
 After the State had rested. Attor- nev A. l.. Hammond. who is defend ing Baralt, asked that the jury be in structed to return a verdict of not guilty. his motion being denied. Ham, mond based his motion on the follow ing grounds: that the wnisbcy had been purchased by the State and that the State had induced John Barant to commit d crime, if any of the testi ~. 4.f-