Today in history: Woman arrested for selling 'hootch' held f

Today in history: Woman arrested for selling 'hootch' held for circuit court


Dec. 21, 1920
Mrs. J. Journeau was bound over to the January term of Circuit Court under $500 bonds this morning on a local option charge following an examination in Recorder’s Court before E.J. Millington. Chief Ernest Harris was the only witness for the people. He testified that he swore out a search warrant and found liquor on the Journeau premises Dec. 14. John Mack and Al Smith accompanied him, he said, and found a gallon jug of homemade whisky under Mrs. Journeau’s skirts in a room just back of her soft drink and tobacco store at 401 N. Mitchell St. There was two inches of the same kind of hootch in a quart bottle full of some other kind of whiskey in a bread box in the store. The defense tried to establish that all the liquor was in a dwelling but Prosecutor W.H. Yearnd brought out that this was not the fact. It was also testified that Mrs. Journeau had had roomers which indicated that there might be some difficulty in establishing that the rooms back of the store, said to be merely curtains off from the store at an archway, were private quarters. On cross examination by E.F. Sawyer, Chief Harris said that he got his search warrant when told by Alex Ziegler that liquor had been sold him there by drink and by bottle. The chief said he had seen men leaving the place who he thought had been drinking and that it was rumored liquor could be obtained there. Ziegler previously was bound over on a charge of transporting liquor on his persons. The defense failed to get across references to other places in the city but got in the record the fact that no liquor was found in a previous search at this place. The chief on cross examination denied he got out the warrant on the day in question because he knew someone had sold Mrs. Journeau something that day. This was taken to indicate that the defense will try to prove the frame up. The woman when arrested told the police that a man she later saw in uniform on the street sold her a bottle of stuff but the police found two kinds of liquor in three different containers, it was brought out. The prosecutor objected to defense counsel furnishing bonds for the prisoner, which he had done before the examination. The prisoner was released until counsel could find other bonds.

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