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Newspaper
Houston Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1911
Page
26
A Houston Post item is labeled a fake from Harris County Prohibition Headquarters alleging Grand Jury reports on city saloons. The text claims high crime from saloons, cites observations by Charton A. Houta and others, and denies any prior grand jury consideration of the issue under the current license system.
Michael J. Mooney testifies before a city notary that the June term St Louis grand jury made no reports on liquor traffic or crime. He notes earlier 1910 1911 reports show no comments on saloons or crime and that deliberations will resume in September 1911.
Foreman of the St Louis grand jury in 1911 states the June panel did not consider saloons or liquor trash and will not include any such reference in its report. The Houston Post publishes the foreman’s telegram denying the ad’s claim and asserting the matter was routine.
Judge Wilson A. Taylor of the St. Louis Criminal Court dismisses claims that the St. Louis grand jury criticized the dram shop. He says the jury has uttered no such statement and the criticism must be someone else’s imagination.
Foreman John D. Manlay states the April grand jury did not address saloons or liquor in its final report submitted June 3 1911. Henry A. Rosskopf, assistant circuit attorney, says no grand jury has charged crime and pauperism as a direct result of saloons in this city during the past two years.
In St Louis on July 13 1911 the Proven Absolutely False Headquarters Criminal Division states that no grand jury, recent or remote, has consented to any saloon regulation or commented on dramshop laws. Official records indicate the grand jury did not address the saloon question or enforcement methods.
Deputy excise commissioner Clinton Nichols and Chief William Young angrily refute a Houston produced ad claiming 8 percent crime tied to St Louis saloons. They stress no grand jury report supports the figure and condemn the fake as a deliberate falsehood used to promote temperance views. Executive Committee of Harris County Anti-Statewide Prohibition Association signs the statement.
Thomas E. Mulvihill, excise commissioner of St. Lena 1905 to 1909 under Gov. Joseph W. Folk, said the strand jury’s criticism of saloons is news to him and that no such report has been made in a recent period.
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