Putnam patriot., 1925-10-30
Arrest Woman Proprietor and Three Drunks In Saturday
 Night Raid
Seven Case. Disposed of In City Court
 Monday Morning

went 10 tae nome or hfss NIeAofia Semenezcha. GO School street. Satur- day night. searched the place, and took away seventy-one quart bottles of home brew and arrested three men found in the place in an intoxicated condition.
 This makes the third time that this woman has been arrested for a viola s.;,a 5f the liquor law. Her ease iz ah exceedingly difficult one, owing to the | fact that she has three small children. 1 baby eighteen months old, and a girl and a boy. both under six years Of Iage. She has been in the superior court and placed on probation but ap= pears to think that the world owes her a living.
 Wanted to Hear the Evidence
 When asked whether she was guilty or not guilty Victoria said she didn't I know. She wanted to find out, she said. who had told on her.
 The three officers testified t0 going Co the place and finding the large amount of beer. beer glasses partly l full on the table and the three men still fuller.
 Then the judge began to question Victoria as she sat trying to keep her youngest child from crawling under 1 the judges bench. Victoria said that she couldn't live on the S42 the govern ment paid her. plus two dollars a week lpaid by her roemeH She said that she made beer about once month in 50. lauart quantity She said that eecas- lionally friends dropped in to have a bottle and dropped money on the table as gifts to the children. She would tonly admit making about two dollars a month from her sales, but said she | got twenty five cents a bottle after l finally admitting outright that she sold a little She tried 10 make the court believe that the rest of the beer was consumed by herself and an oeca sional friend ar two whom she treat ed
 Judge Geissler held Victoria for thu superior court and allowed her to e under her own reeognizanee. Tn woman husband who is dead, was IT the World War and she gets govern ment allowance. She pays Sl5 monti for rent and apparently. sells mora lor less beer, according to her own ad mission.
 Must Have Been Big Glass
 One Glass Harry and One Glas Charley were Two of the victims Q Che School street raid Harry. whosi last name is MaskaWIfz and Charley whose last name is Rackuza. butl came down from Meehaniesville hit the high spots on Saturday night When Harry Was asked if he was in taxieated he said mo understand. When asked if he was drunk he sail that he wasn't and that he had onl' consumed one glass of beer He late admitted that the glass was m th ; shape of bottle and when q sampl
 of Che bottle WAS shown in court was apparent that one bottle equal , several glasses The three officer i, concerned in the raid said that on l; glass or not Harry was drunk, aH' good and drunk.
 While Charley plead guilty to be , ing drunk he, like Harry. maintaine, that he only took one glass Possibl! he meant one glass at time, anyhow he did not deny theifact that he wa 1. intoxicated Both Harry and Charle' were fined Sl0 and ordered to pa! costs of Sf33i
 Arrived Drunk ? Leo Bonin. third victim of th, raid. also plead guilty Co drunkenness However. he said he was as drunl when he arrived as when the officer found him. He and a "crowd," about ten in all pitched in" and someon, bought pint of moonshine or split He put four bits into the pot but dio no, know how much anyone else put in Bouin looked out of place in the company he was in. He said he had never been arrested before and that he supports his mother. His case was continued for six months upon the payment of actual costs of S320 and he was placed in charge of the pro hatieH officer
 Chums of 62
 The next pair of drunks were John ] Donnell and Thomas Maloney. Tha prosecutor had O'Donnelrs name as ! Thomas which greatly perturbed that gentleman for. said he. Al of the | police know me and know that my name is John. l" John claimed Fall River as his home and loom fixing as | his occupation As the ioomiiNine business was not good John turned Ca umbrella mending While in our ht- tie city he met his chum Maloney. Maloney said his home was most any place. Both gave their ages as 62 and looked TO John said he bought some denatured alcohol from a paint shop to clean umbrella ribs It turn ed cold and to keep his own ribs warm he drank the near poison. When Ma. loney was asked what he drank he said "the same as my chum John and Thomas were sent to jail for thirty days each and ordered Co paw costs of Sl2.l4, which. as neither had n cent. will make the total forty-twu days.