Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-11
Isaac Dansky Gets
Stiff Sentence and
Call-DOWn by judge

iSddC l.. DanSky OF 30 Ilconlc street
was before the court Monday morn
ing on q search and seizure process
and also on a charge OF the illegal
possession of liquors Dansky,
through his counsel, Arthur l.. Graf
ty, waived the reading of the warrant
and pleaded not guilty. Witnesses in
the case were three of the officers
who conducted the raid on Dansky's
house Sunday evening. The first wit
ness called was City Marshal Will
liam II. Murray, who stated that Sun
day evening at about lis he. with
Deputy Marshal George Fl. Simpson
and Officers Beckett and Blunt. went
to the house of Dansky at 50 Ticonic
street; that some of the officers went
up stairway on the south side of
the house and into a room he should
call a kitchen and from there into a
pantry where the Whiskey was found.
Marshal Murray said that he had
had complaints as to Danskt's place
several times He said that the of
ficers found one quart bottle of
Whiskey and two empty gallon cans
Which he considered had contained in
toxicating liquors.
Officer Beckett, who found the
whiskey said that in the pantry Ire
We're q number OF bags of optatocs
stood up against the wall and that
two more bags leaned against each
other and between was the box in
which under some straw there was
found the bottle of whiskcy that was
produced IN court. The box. he said.
was of the size 70 hold about dozen
bottles Of The size Of the bottle found.
Officer Blunt said that he drove the
officers there hut did not go into the
house at first. remaining outside to
see if anyone left the house.
Judge Atchlcy after hearing the
evidence said that on the search and
seizure warrant he should find that
liquors We're found in Danskys pos
session. On the warrant for Illegal
possession of liquor he should find
that the liquor was kept for Illegal
purposes.
1T is not very time that man
should be held on finding so small a
quantity of liquor on his premises,
continued the judge, put the way
that the sale of intoxicating liquors
is conducted today we know that the
person who makes the sale keeps a
small quantity of liquor on hand and
keeps the greater part of his stock
stored ii some secluded place and
when he has a call he either sup
plies the demand from the small
stock he has on hand or sends cut
to the storehouse for it.
The respondent has been found
guilty OF this charge before but T..
want to say that evidence coming
to me from many cources is 20 the
effect that Dansky conducts ore of
the rottonast plaes for the sale of
liquor n the city and his is not the
only place. AM man who will sell
ting rotten stuff that the young men
drink who are coming before me
constantly should be guilty of some
other crime than the sale of liquor.
If the officers will bring them into
me, / will see that they get their just
dues. The men who sell this rotten
stuff are more criminal than those
who drink it. I'm finding the res
pendent guilty and he knows why
I'm doing it. I shall impose a fine of
$3.50 and costs and in addition so DAYS
in jail
The case was appealed and Dansky
was placed Under bonds of $1,000 for
his appearance in the Superior court.
Bonds were furnished by William Le
vine and H. Rosenthal.