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* I Orders for (iHimtr anti rceOvcd by drif-ton Klt;Chardf «rs of Mlnst* r’s and IGkMr’s lei* wagnns. »- I .. . I urlQ IieeCor rt lUTtilfRHt nim H eek.— Brtatol j Avimua#Mit a large delegation to Duy leatowu on j lb* p Monday tuornlng In attend tin* N «f» tuber ! After Wm of criminal coin I In tin capacity of started d ju ora, vttt »»* f, pros* cut us and d**frnda» la j 8»*mh. in the iffrrtl caaea to be brought up for j of hoitrial, Tfet liquor cases, wb**r*Io TteM~t*a | the hParity, William 8. Gilbert, J.atrenct Me Mick*, Owen and M % y an** Mthorl wwrw cbafgtd j ptglt;Lit taIt.li selling liquor to persons of known in* iwttt,temper am balds, attract'd the great* al j II* AI ahart of Interest lo Un* BiMnhans who re-|V\iliia1 in allied at home. The W 8 ttilto't and I Waltt Thaddeus Parley cases were the only ones Amyesnei*r8* | tried, the other two being abandoned by »be j Mrs K ! Dift'let Attorney because the evidence tie 8lt;hu•* bad to produce wi« about the tarn** *• offer- Mr. aied In the former eases, where the jury bad and iiacquitted and pin the cirats on the com ty Mia. -The cadence It) the barley case as printed H» KM In the Doylestown papera, presents aotna Muirsfunny ideas as to what constitutes a p* rsou : G*nr$ of known lirempana’e habits. j 8te; Itilernatd J. McGlnley teatifled that lie got j liohitliquor and lager beer at Parley’s In tel « n I tl**!p|the 0 h of May, 1803; James barley, the ba - j of L* lender, gave it to him. Th*ddeus Farley j Drui was not present, bill came in after he drank j Mm. Was sober at the time the heel was g Veil j and a to him. ! 1***1* *mJTI*rn-u-idlieII Prank Lynn knows Tkaddeu* Farley and has often got beer and whiskey of Mr Parley and his biother *’lots of ttuiws within the1enidorsaso-( US 13new*of.Hrc-Ftpast two years, hut was not drunk at the I nv« r time, just jumped off the ice wagon, g«»t a glass of beer and went right out again. cet tilIn answer to the court the witness said j t!7-;a» ■tb it he and McGlnley got ginger ale on May 6,1833; that he did not tliii k McGmley m| j could have gotten any liquor there withoutH_ being se^n by him.Charles Milligan testified that lie wa* of | whb McUiuley at the Cloasou House and q, got iaeer beer from James barley on May 6 i j Thaddeu* Parley w as not there at the fi atg, round of drinks but coma there during ihe IId : second round. 14We gut lager beer. Me- I xhMi Ginh y was ih t drunk hut allowed it a II* lie claM1 tmy *ithat he had been drinking.1 j lmv«Edwaid N Uo-z, Justice of the Peace, hu,‘ testified that McGit ley and Lynn wete b«4b■ - •peisons of known iutemperau) habits Cross-examined : 4ll have seen McGlnley drunk j TJJ| three times in three years and Lynn about **M six times since I have know u him. I thinke-■a1-rnor*r-ii ya man that gets drunk three times In three years is a man of known intemperate habits. All the officers in Bristol say so. *UrJohn K Young,a druggist on Bath street,ireiirsforetID,iii-earsaid that McGlnley was not a pet sou of^ known Intemperate habits since the definition given by the court that afternoon. Does I not know much about Lynn. JThaddeus Parley, defendant in the case, W 1 was cali» d, and testified that he is the pro-prit tor of the Cloasou House in Bristol, and has never furnished McGlnley any liquor;Lynn is a safe man to sell liquor to ; he is not a person of known intemperate habits.Jaunt) Farley, bn-tender at the Closnn House, testified that on May 0, Milligan,Lyuu and McGlnley came in and asked for strong drinks, but he would not give themany because he had beeu told by bis brother not to do so.John C. Brown was in the Closson Housey’«nt*x-Coter.heon May 0, when McGlnley and Lynn came lee in and they were refused a glass of beer ; they £J] ng got nothing to drink while he was there.The reputation of the Closson House forin-!observing llie liquor law is good. t*at itol1880ud1 Elwood W . Minster, anolber witness, bs» di- I h*d Frank Lynn employed for four or Uve J( ye.rs; as it has been defined here, he is not ^ a person of known intemperate habits. The Jis character of the Closson House is good.I ^Cross examined : “ Frank Lynn gets drunk S'imetirnes. lie has been drunk three or»d- four times since he has been in my employ.” The jury returned a verdict of not guil.y, the couuty to pay the costs.■est
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Bristol Observer
Bristol, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Nov 18, 1893
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