Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1908 — Rosenbaum Case Tried Wednesday. [ARTICLE]

Rosenbaum Case Tried Wednesday.

The case of the* state against Aug--, ust Rosenbaum, alleged to be guilty of having liquor in his possession for the purpose of selling it, and which grew out of the raid of the officers about two weeks ago when two sugar barrels filled with bottled beer, one case of beer and 21 quart bottles of whiskey were confiscated, was tried in hte circuit court Wedensday afternoon, as soon as a jury could be procured after the Dan Day trial was completed. The prosecuting witness was Mrs. Emma Hiatt,, and her husband, Daniel W. Hiatt, also testified for the state. They worked for a short time for Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbaum at the Hotel Rosey, and wound up their short stay as cooks and dishwashe.s at that hostelry by getting on a combination drunk. On evidence procured from her after her husband had been sent to jail, a search warrant was issued and the officers found the liquors above enumerated and It looked like a bad case of illicit selling had been found, but the state could get no evidence of others than the Hiatts having bought any liquor there, and Rosey and his wife both emphatically denied that they had either one ever sold any liquor, and while they knew about the Hiatts getting drunk they claimed that they had not sold them the liquor. The officers produced a bottle half full which they had taken away from Hiatt when he was drunk and it was the same brand as that which Rosey had, but his claim was that the Hiatts had purloined the booze while he and his wife were down the river fishing. Samples of the liquor were proproduced in the court room. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbaum said that they always used beer as a beverage for their family, and that the whiskey was kept for the purpose of giving Mr. Rosenbaum whiskey rub downs, a treatment prescribed for increasing the blood circulation since he suffered a stroke of paralysis. The testimony was all in before supper Wednesday, and the arguments of the attorneys took place after supper and the jury adjourned at about 9 o'clock and was still out at three’ o’clock Thursday afternoon.