Putnam patriot., 1923-09-28
CITY COURT FINES
 JOS. RICHARD S200
Judge Geissler, In Imposing Sentence, Says Somebody
 Lied While Testifying
Case Hinged on Police Raid For Con
 trabsnd Intoxicating Liquors

An empty gallon can that exhaled the fumes of alcohol, half pint bottle containing about four fingers of the same liquid, bottle containing a H. auia that sparkled like ginger ale and which proved Co be this harmless soda pop" when applied te the tongue of Attorney Irving Miron sev- eral empty glasses, were the exhibits in the ease of State vs. Joseph Rich ards of Providence street, argaigned in the Putnam city court, Monday morning. on charge of selling and keeping with intent ta sell snirituegs and intoxicating liquors. The case was continued from September 3rd, and when the evidence was all in and counsel had been heard, Richards was found guilty. fined S200 and costs, and paid. Mir. Richards was defended by Attorney Irving H. Miron.
 The case grew out of a raid at the Richards place Saturday night, Sep tember lst, at about the hour of l0.30 p. m. The raiding party consisted of Sergeant Lizard and Officers Gibney, Ryan and Dupre.
 Police Officers Testify
 According to the testimony of the officers they reached the Richards place via the Richards back yard, and it was testified that as they approach ed in the darkness light. apparently from a flash light. shown from a rear window and was reflected by their brass buttons.
 Reaching the door of the Richards home, the officers gave an official knock. They knocked again. All was silent, except for noise which Officer Ryan likened to can being cut CT dragged across the floor. This officer ran around the house and peeking un- der a partially drawn curtain in the sink room, saw a woman pouring a H. quid down the sink.
 Mir. Ryan Seixes Can
 Entrance once gained, Officer Ryan found the can in the wood box in the kitchen. All of the officers then put their official noses to the sink and were unanimous in their opinion that there had recently been alcohol whereabouts. although when the sink trap was opened nothing came therefrom but a half pint of Roseland Lake.
 No further signs of illicit liquor were found in the Richards home.
 The head of the house arriving at about this time, and learning what was transpiring, offered to unlock the garage or workshop in the rear, which was covered by the search warrant un- der the authority of which the officers were functioning.
 In the shop the officers found the ginger pop. the half pint bottle with four fingers of alcohol, and the glass es. Gathering these up and placing them with the can for future use, the officers departed.
 Mrs. Richards Testifies
 This completed the states case. Richards wife took the stand and told the court that when the knock came at the door she did not know who it was. She said that she was not in the habit of opening the door when her husband was away. and furthermore that she was bathing and was partially disrob- ed. Having donned sufficient clothing, she went to the sink and dumped out the remains of her bath. She denied that this was alcohol or that it came from the can which the officers seized. She stated that the can was an empty one that her husband had brought in to sell to Michael Coleman t8 put oil in, and her husband had told her to give 1t to the oil man if he appeared. That was all there was to 1t, according to Mrs. Richards, who also admitted
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