Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-01-30
DANELSoN AND PUTNAM News
PUTNAM

+ or the second Time WITHIN a week
blue-coated raiding party left police
hea dquarters Friday evening. In the
possession. of the party were six war
rants duly signed by the judge of the
city court Just why Friday evening
is picked up as the best time to search (
for intoxicants has not been revealed but
the last raids were also on Fish Day |
evening, and perhaps that explains it.
an abnormal thirst following the con- |
sumption of the Friday meal. No trucks !
or wagons, not even a wheelbarrow was |
needed to carry back to the station
house what the officers found and seiz- |
ed. The sum total of the nights work
was eleven bottles Of Jakey but the eff
feet Of two raids within week may
have a good and far reaching effect. In
| the party were Captain Of Police Ren1ie
Delage, Sergeant George Laird and Pa
trolnen Jarvis, Ryan. Gibney, Martin,
Bancroft and O'Brien. In some instances
! the ranks were divided and two places
were under inspection at the same time
The officers called on George Briceault
but found nothing illegal: they called
| at the home Of Peter Dumas with the
same result. At the places of Arthur
| Cordier and Alfred LHereux nothing
nothing was found. The first success OF
| the evening was at the pool room of Jer-
| ~ Guertin. A close inspection develop
| ed nothing but something attracted the
officers attention to a sixteen-year-old
boy in the place and upon opening his
coat six bottles Of Jamaica ginger wera
found. At Gregoire's store three boz
lies Of Jakey were seized and at his
home the officers found two more bot
Ties an empty container and on the ash
pile near the house found many emp
ties The police arrested both Guer-
tin and Gregoire. The officers unearth-
ed evidence which causes them to be-
iieve that two young boys, Wilfred Au-
ger and Achille Gregoire, had been act
Ing as agents. The boys were placed IN
der arrest. At special session Of tlle
city court Saturday afternoon Guertin
plead guilty to keepig Intoxicating IL
quor with intent to sell and with repu-
| tation. He was fined $500 on the first
count, with costs, of $26.14, and $500 on
| the second count. The fine on the second
count was suspended for six months
with the understanding that Guertin
close his place. The case of Gregoire
, | was continued to February 6 and the
two boys were put in charge OF the pro-
baton officer and also ordered to APP
pear on the 9Th.
j. F. Carpenter, who took oface as
prosecuting attorney OF the city Of, Put
! nam the first OF the year and who made
, | it plain that he IS going to enforce the
laws regarding the manufacture and
5 sale Of intoxicating liquor when he al
dressed the court last week Monday
: morning. has stated his views regard
I ing prohibition enforcement, saying: "Ii
/ the people Of the United States do not
want the prohibition amendment they
should not have passed i'll There is q
: question in my mind whether or not i
) should be modified. Prohibition does
= not prohibit. Putnam. in my opinion. was
! the best conducted license town in the
state OF Connecticut During license
= times I slept over one saloon ana across
s the street from another, and I have beer
= more disturbed by noise and disorderly
3 conduct in the last summer than I We!
G in license times. I think the trouble j:
= the rnoonshins and hooch that is beins
T substituted for good liquors. Anyon
who drinks n1oonshine is a fool bccaus
Il i affects his brain Immediately PEG
e pie do not understand the prohibition
= amendment to the Constitution Il l,ro
;. hfbits the manufacture Of intoxicatin,
d liquor even in the home, for private use
II II each home is going TO have a littI
9 still with which they manufacture moon
slime We would be far better off unde
n license. We would be better off wit
e good whisl1ey sold under government
o protection than We will be IL moonshin
e is allowed TO be manufactured an
# drunk in the homes. If foreigners com
to the United States to take advantag
It Of the privileges offered here they mus
e also accept our restrictions. In Euro
t. pean countries II is usual for little chr
/ dren to drink wine with ten per cent a
a cohol as freely as we drink coffee an
ie tea. They cannot do it in this countr
ID and they must so understand it. In OF
der to manufacture any intoxicating I
= quors, even in the home. the people hav
pr got to take out a government permi
2s and that permit is hard to ge. In m
G opinion the idea Of children f11e and 81
SIS years old drinking wine with ten %
OF cent. alcohol Is all wrong, but that is
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