Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-07-28 | Page 7 | One Hundred Fifty Dollars in Fines in Court

ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS IN FINES IN COURT The city was enriched $150 this morning through the regular session of the municipal court. A third of the amount was forfeited by May Brown, who was charged with selling liquor without a license and who was arrested several days ago. The remaining $100 was secured through the fining of Charles Austin, Aus-tin, who was found guilty of selling liquor to minors. The city's witnesses wit-nesses in the Austin case were Officers Offi-cers Charles Layne and T. H. Black burn and Oscar G. Stevens and Chas West. The two latter are minors and the liquor was alleged to have been sold to them by the defendant. Austin Aus-tin went on the stand In his own behalf be-half and had no other witnesses. The testimony In the case was to the effect that on the night of July 24, Officers Layne and Blackburn saw the two boys walking up Twenty-fifth street and found they had sev eral bottles of beer under their coats. They questioned them as to where they procured the liquor The boys said that they purchased it from a bartender in the White Elephant saloon sa-loon on Twenty-fifth street They were taken to the saloon and identified identi-fied Austin as the man who sold them the beer A warrant was sworn out and serv ed on Austin yesterday. The defend ant. when placed on the witness stand denied the statements of the two boys and said that he had never sold liquor to a minor since he had been in the business. The judge read the ordi nance and fined the defendant $100 Austin served notice of an appeal and his bond was fixed at $200. John Helms, who was charged with selling liquor w ithout a license, plead ed not guilty and had his case set for tomorrow morning.