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Charge of Defrauding An Innkeeper Filed Against Prohibition Officer, * DroppedTWO MEN ARE FINEDTestimony of Mrs. Helen Stevens, wife 'of State' Prohibition Agent George Stevens, ‘helped bring about conviction. :in. municipal, court today of Tony Ross and Prank Cirioti on charges' of selling1 intoxicating'liquor In violation of the Crabbe act..Just before the trial of Ross and Cirioti, an affidavit was'served on the dry agent charging' him with defrauding an innkeeper. The charge ■was filed by L. H. Droubard, who alleged that Stevens drab failed to pay him a board and room bill gf $7 be-iiv leaving Drouhard’s foaming quart-, ers in January.-The charge was dismissed following the liquor .trials, when Stevens agreed to pay;th6 -amount due-the inkeeper. Stevens said he had- ho intention of defrauding Dnoiihard ;.and declared that on - several ^occasions,''had-'askbd wh'at;: hie- bill .amounted- to,.. Tcstifles to-ljrinking Beer. rThe ... charges against Ross ! and Cirioti, '.both' of whom;previously had pleaded - guilty.' to and paid fines: in . the1 local court, - for: yiolatibxi of liquor 5S • laws were filed by the prohibition agent. . Ross, according-'to the'affidavit filed, against him,-.was charged with selling intoxicating‘ liquor April 23. Cirioti was .tried on'two selling charges, it being alleged by the enforcement. officer that he made purchases: of liquor at the former's establishment 221 Erie, street,' S,,; on February 4 and March 11,' Ross was found guilty and';, fined $250 and costs by Judge Q. W. Port-msnn after the court had heard the prohibition agent and his wife testify they purchased liquor at' the- Glen-inont hotel in Tremont. avenue, SW., on- April 23-, The hotel :was then operated by Ross. Both-testified thatiididheaeecd{Continued on Page Eight)
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Evening Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Fri, May 03, 1929
Page 15
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