The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-04
THE COTTAGE"
DOORS CLOSED
License CT mission Issued
Order i Glowing a
: airing
JOHN J AYHUE
= lELD LICENSE
His Is the Second First-Class
Saloon to Be Closed In
side Two Months

| Following hearing in which John j.
Cayhue was summoned to show cause
why his license of the first class should
not be revoked, the expected happened
yesterday afternoon when the Washing
ton county licensing board signed an or
der of revocation in the case of the Cot
tage, saloon on North Main street. Mr.
Cayhue's place of business was closed,
and as the order issued by the commits
soners is permanent, the establishment
will not be reopened. The Cottage, for
nearly two years trysting place for
drinking people, is the second license of
the first class to be revoked within pc
riod of two months, the first having been
a saloon on Merchant street, which was
closed as the result of alleged illegal, or
bottle sales, to Norwich university stu
dents.
The order served by Chairman w. IT,
Ward on the licensee reads as follows:
"State of Vermont, Washington coun-
ty; to John j. Cayhue, 24s North Main
street, Barre, VT: Whereas, on com
plant made to the license commission
ers of Washington county by citizen of
the city of barre, you were charged in
said complaint with the selling of intoxi-
eating liquor by the bottle and in TASKS
on the 10th and Goth days of December,
1917, to Neil Knapp, not to be drunk on
the premises covered by your license;
and to Roswell Farnham in the month of
October and November Of said year: and
to John E. Rollins in the latter part of
August, lol7, and to one f. Ballou, and
to said persons at divers other times,
and whereas;
You were duly summoned to appear
before said license commissioners and to
answer to said complaint on the Sd day
IF January, l9lS, and whereas: in answer
10 said summons, YOU appeared with
your counsel and were heard, as far as
you cared to be heard.
Now, therefore, we, the license com
nissioners of Washington county, upon
rearing and consideration, do find that
you are guilty Of the charges as set
orth in said complaint.
Therefore your license of the first
lass, to sell intoxicating liquor in the
'ity of Barre, is hereby revoked for
ause Done at the city of Barre, in the
ounty of Washington and state Of Yer
mont, this Sd day of January, A. d.,
9ls
wv. H. Ward,
'E b. House,
"Battista Lucchina.
License Commissioners for Washington
County,
Evidence tending to convict the licen
ee as charged was introduced by the
tate at a hearing before the commits
ion in the council chamber at city hall
Apparently the case grew
ut of the arrest of Martin McMahon,
ho was charged with the sale of bot
e of goods to Neil Knapp in the Cottage
lee. 20. The disclosure of i. Balou,
entioned in the foregoing order, does
OF appear in the record of the hearing,
ut statements made by Neil Knapp a
sident of Cabot and reputed deputy
leriff, by J. Edward Rollins, Civil war
,teran. and by Roswell Farnham,
rm hand from Orange. were of a de-
dedly incriminatory nature. Added to
e testimony of Knapp were the state
ents of States Atty. f. r. Davis. Chief
Police Samuel Sinclair and Gelsey
onti. made under oath. The stories
Id by the police indicated that they
,rked in cooperation with Knapp te
III off frame up on the lieensee. Dur
2 the hearing counsel for the licensee,
A. Hoar and A. G. Fay, wrung from
lapp an admission that he had been
hvicted twice of larceny, but his testi
1ny relative to the alleged purchase re-
lined mistaken. Likewise the states
torney's Identification of the flask al
,ed to have been sold to Knapp. Mon
statement relative to trailing Knapp
the saloon on the occasion of the
ant," and the chiefs testimony cover
a search of knapp's person after the
rchase were not impeached
Ever since the last license regime came
the Cottage has remained one of the
st picturesque wet spots on the map
Barre, and many matutinal thirst
$ slaked at its fount. To-day the
tains were drawn and uninformed
sons who tried the door retired in
eomfiture. thinking probably that the
rene cold had warped the threshold.
n revocations ordered by the commits
n have been dated since the general
embly of 1917 abolished the second
IS license, thereby forbidding the sale
fiery liquids in bottles. With the
sure of two first class licenses from
list OF legalized establishments. only
e remain. and of them six are saloons
he first class.