The daily independent., 1937-08-12

Sentences Imposed
FeIrell, proprie, or of the Orien-
tai Gardens; Layden, proprietor
OF the Rex filling station. and
Campbell, whose place was op-
Grated under his name, We're each
ordered to pay 500 fines and
costs Of the court. Miller's fine
was set at $50, and the other six
defendants had to pay only S25
each.
However, each defendant drew
the following further sentence:
Sentenced to the county Jail
Ior a period of two years, to be
worked on the public roads of
North Carolina. with the sentence
suspended on payment of fines
and costs, and upon he further
condition that the place of busi-
ness hereafter operated by the de-
fendant, or in which he is here
after employed, habitually- or
casually. be conducted in all res
poets in accordance with law, and
the defendant q. all times refrain.
directly or indirectly, from ILL
cit traffic in intoXicatin beverages
and from the unlawful possession
or sale Of Intoxicating beverages
the defendant, upon violation Of
any of the terms of his condition,
to be subject to serve and execute
the road sentence hereinbefore
imposed"
Can Re Made Effective
In other words, if any of the
ten defendants are caught selling
or handling liquor illicitly at any
future time, the two-year road
sentence will become effective au-
! tOmatiCally.
Al OF the defendants submitted
their cases and the judgement of
the court was an agreed judge
ment. prepared following a con-
ference during the noon recess.
It was eyidens after the cases
against Layden and Miller had
been heard that the State had
air-Iitlt evidence in the teSti-
mony Of four detectives who had
been employed by the local ABC
Board. Seeing thai conviction was
certain. and knowing full we'll the
| futi!ity of noting an appeal to the
Superior Court. Attorneys P. G.
Sawyer and j. Henry Leroy, re-
presenting the ten defendants
conferred between themselves
and with their clients and agreed
to submit TO all the charges.
Quartet OF Detectives
The four detectives. operatives
Of the Branch Detective Agency
of Norfolk. were: E. P. Renner,
! c. E. Schools. NJ. E. Winslow and
E. L. Leonard They obtained
their evidence. they revealed, by
striking up the acquaintance OF
/ girls who were employees or habi-
. tues of the four dives" and US
ing the girls as a means OF en-
/ tree.
The fellows who operate these
Joints are suckers" Renner told
a reporter for this newspaper.
Any stranger can go into one Of
/ these places with a local fellow
whom they know and buy whis-
key They are just dumb enough
to believe that, just because the
/ local fellow is good customer
and is above suspicion. the strang-
er with him is also to be trusted.
They'll probably get careless again
in another week or two, and 1t
will be just as easy to catch them
again as it was This time"
Worked At Week-Ends
Renner said he and his asso-
ciates spent around % days here
gathering the evidepce on which
the arrests were made. This was
because there is not much actl-
vity around the nip joints" eX-
cept on week ends and they had
to spread their operations out
over several week ends.
The Branch Detective Agency
has done similar work for the ABC
boards of a several North Carolina
counties this year, having just re-
Gently completed roundup OF
bootleggers in Nash and Edge
combe counties. The same opera
tives can never work in the same
place twice, but the agency has
35 operatives.
we are not really interested IN
catching the mattresses, delivery
bows and lesser employees of these
bootleg and nip joints said Rem
ner. we wan; the big boys-the
fellows VINO are in it to make big
money and not just to make a
living. If we had gone after all
the smaller fry, we would have
made perhaps as many as 90 ar
rests here instead of ten
Permanent Policy
Renner also indicated that this
roundup is no% just a flash In
the pan but that the ABC Board
is going after the bootleggers per-
sistently from now on.
AL 1 can say is that the ABC
store here is going to lose some
sweeS business" commented KEEP
py" Ferrell after the trial yester-
day. I'VE boys have really bought
/ eo,,oo 1;c,,Or from them and / eX-