Show eier arsi SAIS juha m in THE FLINT CALSE day raid R ij beadi results CASE OCOe pi PiES ES THREE DAYS defendant ej to days in jail and v amed ined q case appealed the case of the city of 0 richfield as 9 george geor 9 c FI tit nt for main maintaining tamina a I 1 quor in nuisance saner vaa lost last week I 1 1 afore S limon and mccu 1 led thursday day ilay I 1 and baturla Y the jury returning reL a verdict about 9 p in the city ws depre dented by N J bates and 11 N hayea and the defend defendant art by C E E A jury was wan de minded by the defendant und anti the marshal wo was immediately sent on a search fur men considerable difficulty was wib abidin hid in get tint ting good man and true to hear the c se ee twenty lour four were summoned ere the panel was completed tho the jurors chosen wie were james jamea 13 morrison mormon 0 C peterson Pete raon 6 j W ind W V J been before testimony tea waa taken an n order wa made excluding all witnesses and thi ahn the tha truth on both tides mura moro easily to obtain it will be ba remembers remember ai that on an dy day lee johnston loh naton to re ported to lA arshal leavitt that a lowi of oen men were in ur mr flints tl ints rooms inch are located above the ilia H K X neill drug astorp and that they were tire drinking had heen been gambling gam bline and hit johnston hed hd been bean cepa cc panted from ome bonie roney whereupon officers leera olf raia ed cd thu th j place and procured 23 99 bottles bottle s of nf boor beer and arrested arres lej ur mr FI flint at and ur mr flint wig one or two others looked on A charge of maintaining a liquor rui rul sinca since within the tha city of Ri enfield ard rd clr this charge was 66 tried tiled lee bobis johanaton Joh naton ton was tho city cites chief witness lie ha that lie ha enter d mr flint a 3 room early in tile morning and that alter after eom eomy a time he ha aid K r W hall entered into I 1 card game that bar ir flint left the tha place for a hort tirre that the garno went on and mr flint returned that other men camo came into the room and tint thit drinking drin kine and card playing were wera 11 in eulgen ill that ur mr johnston bought whiskey of bar flint and that other liquor wan visit placed on tho table for the tha use of the guests coesta that after some bome time arose aroe over the tha card game and some slapping or of faces was in that ut flanc da danced iced what the tha boys boya choa cho a to call I 1 a take rake oil IT that johnston think it lair fair arid and that tbt after the tha trouble johnton johnston lett left aba room and informed the officers mr flint fl int danili that liquor was dispensed by him denies that be ba sold bold johnston John itoi MIT auy rh iskey ani denies that ho jaked asked for or any portion of any bonci toone as aa toll tall for or any gema hiving boen been played mr lir liall hall admitted harng played cords cards with Johh but declared it was waa a friendly rame game and that th tho playing siaa sit not for money he admits dimitis that trouble occurred that liquor was partaken partaker par taken of chrt he drank about as aa often aa a johneton did but he drank boys boya drinka while Joh naton took roena mens a drinks to proe proa that mr flint had to re calved large quantities tiei or at beer and mr the tha loc local al agent of the U D it R G railroad company was called as aa a witness lie he showed b III abstracts from his books that on oct 24 ur mr flint had rece iid ono barrel of on nov 2 two barre barr elp lr and on nov 26 one barrel all from tho the becker brewing company of orden ogden on N nov I 1 v 23 a cartoon of whiskey weighing ei ghine 15 pounds ind nd on nov 27 the same ame amount of whiskey mr flint admitted having rece tei all the liquor and heer beer testified to by NIT mr storrs blit explained that ono one hirrel barrel received on nov 2nd and was wag a present Is ia a reward tor for collecting a bill ile ho also held that the beer and liquor aeto for his own use and that he be had not sold cold or otherwise dispensed any A mr hayes hayea en cn cross crosa examination 1 rough out the statement ement that five bottles of beer each day and lit amount of nf would not be drinking other were vere produced by the city to prove that and rcck had been eean in the depot eon con sighed cd to mr flint fliner anti and that barrels resembling bler bi cr barrels had been unloaded at or near defendants place of 0 iro loi idenie dence cit marshal leavitt was wag called by y the tha prosecution to show ahoff how bow the rooms were wera enta bow the tha arrests were wera made and to identify the liquor taken tom t om ur mr flint which liquor tonsia tenanted ten anted ted of 28 23 bottles of beer and to identify two flanks of 0 riven given the marshal by johnston Joh naton on croas examination of ur mr leavitt defendants attorney went carefully into the tha manner of ente entering ur mr flints room and of oe the way in which the arrest was ass made at ans called to the tha liw 1 iw govern ing cases of forcible entry into a 0 room vit hout a warrant ond and stress was laid on the fact that the maioho had over stepped his hia authority in getting into defendant a rooms one thing thine testified to hy by ton that seemed to annoy the defense won woe that on the evening coining of day mr flint met johnston Joh naton a ut t billy a place placa and tried to indue induce him not to testify a if you testify against me ill kill you like a dog doc I 1 are the words johnston Job naton flint of having used flint flatly and strongly denies this thia italia italo nent ra mr r hall testified that he was with hi ihm this thia conversation is alleged to haia hae taken plure arid and that no such euch curi ws was heird by him the case was riven given to the jury jary at six bis ind in about an hour and a halt a verdict of guilty was reached time tor for pissing en entente tence was fit I 1 for monday dec 9 at 11 a to rn all parties were pre pr patient tient ent at the appointed hour and the judgement jud gement of if the court was waa quickly riven given it was that mr k hint lint pay a fine of ard and be placed in the city or county jail for fl a term of days in default of ps payment ment of the diw defendant was ti it servo one day in jail for each cadi dollar of the fino fine the defense quickly civo notice or of appeal to the court end tha bond wag fixed at 11 W V rim liim lose loie and juhn john baker signed the lond bond the papers will he filed with tile the dig brict clerk and the tha case will probably be tried in the early part of january 41 |