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Show city, due to the illness ot City Attorney At-torney Devino. At the conclusion of tho evidence on the part of the city, the attorney for the defendant moved for a dismissal dis-missal on the grounds that tho city had furnished no positive proof that liquor had bc6n sold The court denied de-nied tho motion, calling tho attorncyB attention to the fact that the ordinance ordin-ance provides that if persons were found In the saloon during the restricted restrict-ed hours il was prima facia evidence that the offense of selling liquor was being committed. The evidence given by the defense was that no liquor had becu sold after 12 o'clock, the closing hour. M'GUIRE IS FOUND NOT GUILTY The first case for alleged violation of the liquor ordinance under the revised re-vised code of city laws was tried beiore .ludee Murphy i his morning, and the defendant was discharged, tho court maintaining that the evidence was not sulliclent to warrant a conviction. convic-tion. It was the case of tho City against Ed McGulre, charged with selling sell-ing liquor in his place of business af-1 ter 12 o'clock yesterday morning. Oftlccr Rackham was the only witness wit-ness for the city, and he stated that at the time in question, about 15 minutes min-utes to 1 o'clock yesterday morning he observed men in Mr. McGulre's place of business, and that he was admitted ad-mitted to the place on his own request. re-quest. He found four men at the bar, and upon tho bar were four glasses, two whiskey glasses and two beer glasses, that looked as though they had been recently used. Mr. McGulre was behind the bar, and the other men were in front of it. Tho ofilcer also stated that before he entered en-tered tho saloon, he could see thn shadows of arras lowering the hands from the face, and at that Inhtant heard tho clinking sound of glasses as they were placed on the bar. But ho did not sewe anybody take a drink. Tho clly had o'her witnesses but when they were examined by the attorney at-torney for the city. It whs found that they would testify that no liquor was either bought or giwn nway over Me-Guire's Me-Guire's bar at thut time. They were not called to the witness stand by the city. Tho defense, howc-ver. used them to good advantage. Judge Age was called to prosecute the case for tho |