Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — Licensea Of Cedar Lake Saloonkeepers Revoked [ARTICLE]

Licensea Of Cedar Lake Saloonkeepers Revoked

In the Circuit Court last Friday, Robert B. Russell and John Kennedy, proprietors of two of the road houses at the ‘corner’ near Cedar Lake, who were indicted on several counts by the recent grand jury, gave themselves up and entered pleas of guilty to the several charges in the affidavits. Both defendants, it is said, left the county before the warrants could be served on them. The licenses of both Russell and Kennedy were revoked by the court and Russell-was fined SIOO and costs on four, separate counts of the indictments —namely, keeping open on Sunday, keeping gambling devices and two of selling to minors, but was dismissed on the charges of keeping a house of ill-fame. Kennedy was fined on three charges —two counts of selling to minors and keeping gambling devices—sloo and costs in each case and was dismissed as to several other charges. Both defendants were sentenced to the penal farm for ninety days, but the. court suspended this sentence.

The revoking of two licenses and the removal of the Moriarity outfit from the county, puts the three most notorious places at the lake out of commission for all times. At the same time William Carney of the West Half-way house was fined $25 for allowing gambling devices in his place of business.