Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-22

'in the wine cellar" of the Pennsylvania
street store
vanNuys maintained that the Hangs
knew that this wonderful flood of whisky
prescriptions was coming into their store
on Christmas eve, 1918.
I'm ten days time before Christmas
the evidence showed that Louis Haag or
| dered total of 200 gallons of whisky
| from out Of the state and that Louis
| instructed the senders to rush the or
| der" said the district attorney.
PROFITS ESTIMATED
AT $3.50 A DAY.
vanNuys estimated the profit of the
/ HAags during October, November and
! December, 1918, from their whisky sales
at from $3.50 to $500 a day
Looking directly at the Haags, Van
| Nuys said, When Louis started to make
an inventory Of his whisky stock on the
shelves the next day all the whisky was
| gone and he caused fifty quarts more
| to be put on the shelves.
! TT was like Old Mother Hubbard
going to the cupboard and finding 1t
bare" dramatically recited the district
attorney.
yanNuys declared that many Of the
prescriptions for whisky were "pal-
pable fraud
In defense of the Haags. Michael
Ryan declared there was not a word of
evidence to show that any one VINO pur-
chased whisky on prescriptions for the
Bsag store ever staggered or went
bone in an improper condition.
Mr.. Ryan said the defense admitted
from the outset of the trial that the
defendants did order the whisky as
charged but claimed that 1t was for me-
dicinal purposes alone.
If you believe the testimony of tho
defendants that they bought this whisky
for medicinal purposes then this case
is ended Mr.. Ryan said.
EVERY PRESCRIPTION
CARRIED NAME.
Mr.. Ryan said that every prescription
had the name and address of patient
and steadily maintained that the Haags,
in his judgement, never conducted
/ blind tiger.
Their place of business doesn't carry
the stripe Of blind tiger or any other
kind of a tiger and everything that the
Haags did was done in the open and
/ even sworn to before the county clerk,
claimed Mr.. Ryan.
In closing his argument Mr. Ryan
claimed the only question before the jury
was TO determine whether this liquor
was brought In for medical or for bev-
erage purposes.
The first Of the closing arguments for
the government was made late yesterday
afternoon by District Attorney Fred
VanNuys. who declared that the de-
fendant Haags were in the whisky busi-
ness for the money there was In tie IL
legal traffic
"REQUIRE s43 YEARS
To DRINK STUFF"
II have figured up that If the direc-
tions of taking the doses OF whisky sold
y l. Il II -
were followed out it woul1 require Si3
years to drink the stuff said NanNuys.
THE liquor business IS out of exist
ence because such men as the Haagg
have prostituted their citizenship over the
depioved bodies Of men and women.
charged Mr.. VanNuys.
In the course Of his argument to the
jury. the district attorney stated that
1.-The Haag brothers were the last rem
nants of the blind tigers in Indianapo-
lis"
The district attorney took the position
that the so-ealled prescriptions We're used
just as a blind and that the whole trans
action was farce"
He assumed that the Haags were in
terested only in getting the liquor into
the state and getting the money as sthis
traffic was carried on for money alone.
The district attorney contended that
the evidence showed the Haags at one
time had $4,000 worth of booze in the
cellar OF the PENNSYLVANIA street store.
HOLD NOT BORNE
OUT BY EVIDENCE.
In answering the district attorney. At
torney Charles W, Miller, one of the SEN
Tor counsel for the defense, contended
that the assumptions of the district at
tornes were not borne out by the evi-
dence.
He maintained that the Haags testi-
fed they ordered the whisky for med
ical purposes and as\far as they knew
it was sold only on the proper prescrip-
tions signed by doctors.
Mr.. Miller said he expected the jury :.
to return verdict in favor of his clients&
in the light of the evidence.
He maintained the Hsags had nothi9.
to conceal, that they fled all prescri &
tions filed with the county clerk
Marion county as required by the sta
law and that the prescriptions whi i
on the files in the Pennsylvania stres
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