Live Breaking News & Updates on Mid Michigan Electric

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 s ....

Wexford County , United States , Donald Mason , Tom Taylor , Al Smith , Alex Ziegler , Linda Anderson , Terry Harvey , Ernest Harris , Bob Reddy , Charles Swanberg , Lois Poag , John Mack , Consumers Power Co , Michigan Electric Co , Circuit Court , Michigan Department , Recorder Court , Chief Ernest Harris , Chief Harris , Manager Donald Mason , Consumers Power , Mid Michigan Electric , State Highways , County Board , Wexford County Board ,