Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-06-25 | Page 4 | Ogden Loses First of Liquor Cases

OGDEN LOSES FUST OF LIQUOR CASES Employee of Maxim Cafe Charged With Serving Intoxicants In-toxicants Not Guilty. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, June 24. The first round in the legal battle of Ogden City against the Maxim cafe for the alleged Illegal sale of liquor was lost by the municipality munici-pality today when a jury returned a verdict ver-dict of not guilty in the case of Jerry Brown, alias John Doe, the colored waiter charged with serving intoxicants without a license and after 1 o'clock in the evening. It required only 40 minutes min-utes for tlie jorors to reach a verdict art-er art-er the case had been given to them at 12 o'clock noon. Most of tlie evidence for the prosecution prosecu-tion was Introduced before Judge W. H. Reeder yesterday morning, two of the special investigators testifying today regarding re-garding the purchase of beer andwhisky in the Maxim after 9 o'clock on the evening even-ing of June 17. Mrs. Florence O. Stanford, Stan-ford, city recorder, testified that the defendant's de-fendant's name did not appear on the records as holding a retail liquor li- The defense made its principal point by introducing evidence tending to show that the defendant, Brown, was in Salt Lake City on the night that the liquor was purchased bv the special detectives after 9 o'clock, indicating that the officer offi-cer who served the warrant of arrest picked the wrong negro waiter. Brown himself testified that he was in Salt Lake and F. C. Blankenship, proprietor of the place, told of giving Brown a check, lor S20 on June 17. This check, introduced in evidence, showed that It passed through the Salt Lake clearing house on June 18 and had been cashed in Salt Lake on the seventeenth. Michael la-rlni. la-rlni. a violin player at the cafe, testified tes-tified that he loaned Brown the mileage book on which he rode to Salt Lake on the day In question. The case of Blankenship. against -whom sK complaints were sworn out by Chief of Police W. I. Norton on charges of Illegal Il-legal sales of liquor, is scheduled for trial in Judge Reeder's court tomorrow.