Show FOR SELLING BEER on saturday morning of last week mr 1 I r T paulos manager of the perfection company was arrested on the charge ot of selling beer and otherwise dispensing it on friday the case came up for hearing bearing in justice christ eisens court on oa thiea bues morning at 10 at which time the defendant appeared without counsel and ana pleaded not guilty to the charge city attorney AV B R davis conducted the prosecution and mr paulos was advised that he could have someone represent him but the gentleman declined the services of 0 an attorney stating that mr air if J holt who was present in the court room would be agreeable as counsel if he he would act mr mr holt consented to the proposition and took his seat beside mr paulos the first witness called was marshal valentine who testified to having served a search and warrant on mr paulos friday evening and looked oner his premises finding a number of empty beer bairens and twenty seven bottles of beer in a tub iced which lie he confiscated also testified mat mr air paulos had stated stated that he paulos had bad let some some of the boys have beer b eor at exactly what it cost him as he did not want to make anything on it mr air john deputy sheriff was the next witness and he testified to having walked back through the alley between the state stat bank and armedi armeda block to the rear of the perfection store where he saw men inea drinking beer ho he also testified that mr ed to him that he had been letting the boys have beer at cost because he did not want tomake profit on what he sold mr air valentine and mr zundel testified that mr fr paulos informed them who some of the te individuals were to whom he be hat sold the beer officer H S 3 jensen testified practically to the sam LR chaphe r two antar ZT ab city I 1 tr i es te CA I 1 asae t 5 mr air paulos war no given an opportunity to mal inalee ace a but preferred I 1 ti ht he f i and at mr hilt alt abrew 0 at t his harf it ile he testified V vat tat t at the beer confiscated was not lii tut lul hongell hon h geil tf tc a canen ct ien ot of this eity ily v LO had brought it lit in to his pace pl ico in ii a suit case to have it iced mr air pa jaios stated that his leer beer came irom the salt lake brewing company and the exhibit was labeled deckers beckers from osden ogden lie he did not refer to the testimony of the officers with respect to his admissions to them that he had let some of the boys have beer at cost Al marshal arshal valentine was called in rebuttal and testified that a barrel of beer consigned from ogden was delivered to mr air phalos friday evening by express lie he having proof in the nature of a bill of lading mr james knudson was nas called as a witness tor for the defendant and testified that he had visited the back room of the perfection company on friday and found a good many prominent citizens there drinking beer but did not see mr air paulos either giving it away or selling it but it appeared that was has helping themselves mr knudson made a statement as aa to the circumstances of the case pointing out the evident tact fact that mr paulos had no idea whatever of 0 breaking the law but evidently did what he did as a matter of accommodation to the traveling men attorney davis in summing up read the ordinance recently passed by the city council which makes it a misdemeanor to sell exchange barters barter dispense serve give away or keep for sale any intoxicating liquors and he be pointed out that the prosecution had proven by the three witnesses that defendant had sold dispensed and gillen elen aay an ay beer which la Is included in the category of intoxicating liquors mr davis also read the penalty which the ordinance provides for the breaking of the law which Is a fine due not less leas than fifty dollars nor more than two h huri ud dred and ninety nine dollars or by imprisonment for or not less leas than thirty days nor more than six aai months or by both such fine and imprisonment the city attorney concluded by stating staling that tho the prosecution had made its case beyond question and aad the justice had the law before him to guide him la in passing sentence mr holt made an aa nt plea tor for mr paulos pointing out that he was wag a stranger in a strange land nover never before hatling boen been charged with on an unlawful act was a peaceable and hon honeas est and d businessman busta esman broad la in tie his T views and loyal lorai to the taa community 50 FOR SELLING BEER continued from firs fird DUO As X was via undoubtedly led by sympathy to 0 lio do as he had done perhaps ATM 4 thought to the serious con and therefore mr air holt aska tb that at lenc len tency clency be shown mr hawla knudson was also permitted to malte make a plea in behalf of the defendant and he addressed the court along the same lines as did mr holt justice christenson christensen stated to the defendant that he had a great deal of sympathy for him and if the occasion aad been any other than a traveling Travel lne hens day he be would look at the case differently perhaps but under the statute defendant was wag proved guilty beyond a doubt and ignorance of the law was not provided for by the trainers framers of the nations code of jurisprudence io so he was bound by his oath to perform the duties of his office and find defendant guilty and the law would not admit of a smaller fine of than fifty dollar which was as imposed and later paid |