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Difficulty in Convicting Rum-Sellers Near Schools

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 14, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 19.

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Difficulty in Convicting Rum-Sellers Near Schools

It is a difficult matter to secure the conviction of a rum-seller, no matter how direct and strong the evidence may be against him. In order to convict certain rum-sellers lately, it was necessary to prove that a school-house, less than 400 feet away from certain saloons, was a school-house, and although the city clerk, the superintendent of instruction, the principal of the school, and the janitor of the building, testified that it was used for school purposes, the evidence was not sufficient to convict.