Show DAHLSTEAD CONVICTED BREAKING THE LAW I REGARD I TO STJWDAY LIQUOR SELLING Arrest of Judgment Until Today Tom Matthews Accused of Interfering Inter-fering With an Officer Discharged Minor Cases in the Police Court George Dahlstead again occupied the attention of his honor the police justice yesterday this time on the charge of selling forbidden stimulants at the Old Resort bar last Sunday Thomas Matthews Mat-thews the other proprietor was also wheeled in front of tne tripod on tne charge of Patrolman Hilton that he Patrolman Hiton interfered in-terfered with the proper turning of the I wheels of justice When he and Patrolman De Young he said made the raid on Sunday he attempted at-tempted to retain as witnesses the men standing next to the hair Here Matthews interfered and called out to all the men to leave the place and to take no notice I of what the un policeman saidThere upon he rushed one crowd out of one door and several men out of another I and in this way the very men whom the I patrolman had mentally picked out a the choicest assortment of witnesses were allowed to go unlntertered with Officer De Young during the disturbance in the saloon had however gone in hot pursuit of some of the hoeing men and had succeeded suc-ceeded in roping in a few of the least important im-portant The case against Matthews was deemed insufficient by the judge and he was discharge Dahlstead was then called in for trial Several glasses half filled with liquor Which had been taken from the bar were introduced In eviuence The witnesses agreed that there were about thirty men in the bar at the time although none would admit that anything of the intoxicating in-toxicating variety was being imbibed Judge McKay for the defense attempted at-tempted to piCK some flaws in the complaint com-plaint He said that instead of charging charg-ing some specific offense it announced that intoxicants were sold to divers persons This being so the complaint charged several distinct otfenses and this was entirely out of conformity with criminal practice Judge McKay therefore there-fore claimed that it would be necessary for the prosecution to rely on one separate sep-arate case The court concurred in this and the prosecution amended by making the specific charge of selling to a soldier sol-dier The detense again objected however how-ever saying that a man would have to identified be so described that he could be easily identfied The judge here explained that he had already ruled adversely on that question ques-tion and found the defendant guilty of selling liquor on Sunday as charged Judge McKay made a plea for an arrest ar-rest of judgment which was finally granted by the court The case will be called again this afternoon Minor Offenders James Smith who was arraigned ester es-ter ay for battery was discharged Hugh Blair was given five days of labor la-bor for trespass on the complaint of Wm Nelson Fred PaR and J JR Griffin a seedy looking duo were given seven days of labor on the roads for gambling J OReilly was brought into court for a breach of the Sunday liquor law but the evidence was rather slender and the trial resulted in a dismissal |