Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-31


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WORD TO sALooNKEErERs
With regard to the eataclysic wave
Of drunkenness, the following tersc but
meanlngfu comment was given out today
at the attorney-gcnerals office.
Since the reopcninP OF the saioons
and wholesale liquor stores IN Whining
ton, numerous complaints in regard to
the prevalence of drunkenness have been
received NJ the office OF the attorney
general
Under these circumstances, 1t may
be we'll to call the attention Of licensed
| liquor dealers to certain suggestions rnade
some years ago by the judges of our
Court Of General Sessions for New Castle
| county in respect to the sale OF lntoxicat-
ing liquors Some Of these suggestions
arc rs follows
Selling 10 intoxicated persons IS
entirely too common, and ought 10 be
stopped While the mere fact that an
intoxicated person Is seen coming from
| certain licensed house Is not conclusive
evidence that he received Hquor there,
there rs a certain presumption that he
did II an intoxicated person enters
bar-room The safe and proper thing for
the proprietor To do tn escape the pre-
W Aufit - ~ if-ibst
drink and order him of the premises And
liquor dealer should not cause n customer
TO become intoxicated
ToDAY's LINEUP II cry COURT
Forty-two drunks were sci up before
Judge Churchman IN City Court this
morning like m lnternnable Inc OF
tenpns before q bowler. tn he Knocked
down one by one by fine of s. and costs.
usually Many were discharged be
cause they had not been before Ills Ii,p,ur
for year or nearly that long. but several
were hit with assessments Of 81 and
one who Juggicd his maine. rousIng the
displeasurc uf tho court. was forced Ia
pay double this amount
In the main tho long list Of delinqucnts
who evidently couldn't stand the pros
pcritv Of Unlimited booze after long
deprivation. were not out of place among
the Morning Drunks But to relieve
the tcllum of an ancient proceeding.
case here and there caused broad smiles
and silent laughter 10 sweep over I'll"
court room
Raphael Gutrcz could talk Mexican
fiuently, being native to the tongue. but
not word apparently. Of good [ nited
States did he know He made his mean
ing clear to the court. however, by solemn
IL raising high his hand and mumhllng
NO mas. no mas. para me. Which
being freely translated means No.
Never again" He was discharged
SPOKE No ENGLISH
Consatanto Zopeto was also short on
English He shrugged his shoulders with
such resignation that had he shouted
guilty AT the top Of his voice he couldn't
have made lis meaning any clearer
He was fined S and costs
There was quite an argument between
the defendant and his accuser in the case
of John Redmond charged with being
under the influence Of booze. versus
Policeman Lewis
Lewis testified that he had brought
Redmond as far as the Public Building
Yesterday, because he had been making
a general nuisance OF himself around the
waiting room of the Wilson Line He said
Redmond was plainly too heavily laden
with liquor for his own and the public 5
good.
Redmond earnestly denied that he had
been even in this brief custody and testI-
fed that he had been busy seeing about
his draft Questionnalre up town until
after the hour specified by the policeman.
On the failure of Judge Churchman to
find Redmond's name on yesterday S
docket, the Judge ordered that the local
draft board attorney, with whom Red
mond testified he had left his paper, be
called up. Just here. however, Redmond
confessed that the name signed 10 his
QUESTIONABLE was not Redmond, and
with a weary sigh, the Judge murmured
$40 and costs. Next
CALLS ARREST MISTAKE
Ollie Cleveland said that he was not
exactly drunk but had really been
arrested under a sort of msapprehension
on the part of the police. Why, your
Honor, just stepped up to a crowd to see
what the patrol wagon was dong there
and they loaded me in and carried me
off. Ollies appearance did not seem
TO vouch for the fact that he was an
innocent bystander, though, and he was
fined 81 and costs
Ralph Olson insisted that he lived in
"Perkinstown, though none of the court
officials seemed To be able To recall the
place 1t finally developed that it
twas somewhere in Pennsylvania but
Ralph, who was evidently, and not long
before, from Sweden or Norway, couldn't t
give any more definite direction than
this. He loudly proclaimed that the
police had taken his workmans badge
ana DffnOdHeu t1dt ne fAn telt week ;
wages at his employers. The Judge
assured him that by paving s and costs
he could redeem his badge.
James Cidelli, charged with carrying
concealed deadly weapons, testified that
he had only carried revolver TO a friend
of his who worked at night in machine
shop, and on his request TO be given time
to produce witnesses to this effect the
case was continued
Olivia Segars, colored, testified that
Frank Segars, the prisoner in the dock.
had struck her and Knocked her down in
their home He was fined $40 and costs.
or in lieu of payment thereof, sentenced
to three months in the workhouse.
Edward Appein was charged with the
theft of several brass spigots from the
plumbing shop of Charles Diamond
Diamond valued the spiggots at from
$40 to Sl2 and Appein was held under
$500 bail for court.
William Saunders, was held under
81 900 bail for the next general sessions
on the charge OF violating the work or
fight" order of the State Council of
Defense 1t was testified that Saunders
failed to report for duty to a shop OF the
du Pont Company AT Caney's Point on
September % where he was assigned
Every Evenings classified advertise
ments bring results Proved to the salts
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