Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — BLIND TIGER IN RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

BLIND TIGER IN RENSSELAER

Angnst Rosenbaum, Proprietor of Hotel Rosey, Has Hotel Raided and Moch Booze Is Fonnd Rosey is in trouble again. His hotel was raided by officer# this Saturday morning and a quantity of liquor was found and confiscated and hauled on a dray to the court house and stored temporarily in the basement. As briefly told in the Republican Frld&y William Hiatt and wife, who have been cooks in the Rosenbaum kotel, both became intoxicated Thursday and he was fined for intoxication and locked up in jail. Mrs. Hiatt is well connected in Rensselaer and her relatives were deeply mortified by the disgrace of her conduct and they determined to find out.where the liquor was purchased and she finally told them and consented to make the statement under oath to a justice of the peace, and accordingly she was taken before Squire Irwin I and in the presence of Prosecuting 1 Attorney Leopold she stated that herself and husband had bought the liquor of Landlord Rosenbaum, and had purchased four quarts, for which they had paid |1.25 a quart. Monroe Carr swore out a warrant to have the hotel searched and it was placed in the hands of Sheriff O’Connor, Deputy Oliver Rdbinson and Marshal Parks, who went at once to the hotel, read the search warrant to the surprised landlord, and after a little parlying he took them to the room where the liquor was stored, and they had it loaded on a dray and taken to the court house. Rosenbaum’s arrest followed. The minimum fine that can be assessed under the new “blind tiger” act is SSO, and a jail sentence also becomes necessary, and must be from 30 to 60 days for the first conviction. The liquor Will be destroyed. The case will

be tried in the circuit court the present term. When Rosey went out of the saloon business in the fall of 1906 he stated that he would under no circumstances sell any liquor and that he would conduct his hotel free from criticism. He ran the Model restaurant In the room where his saloon formerly was for almost a year and a half, and about three months ago, when the old Nowels House was repaired he moved to It and gave Jt the name of Hotel Rosey. Various tales have been told to the officers about his selling liquor there and he has been on the suspicioned list for a long time. His failure to make good on his voluntary statement that he would not handle liquor is very much to be regretted, and it Is hoped that after he gets out of this fix he will be more determined to devote his entire energies to the hotel. L ..