Cafe Owner Fined for Sunday Sales

CAFE OWNER FINED FOR SUNDAY SALES South Camden Saloonkeeper Granted Continuance of Hearing After Raid A North Camden saloonkeeper was fined $50 with the alternative of serving 50 days in Camden County jail yesterday by Police Judge Lewis Liberman as police continued the drive against Sunday sales. The saloonkeeper is Clement Bridgeman, 36, of 939 North Third street. Louis Bruten, 58, colored, who operates a saloon at 773 Central avenue, was arrested for illegal Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages. He was granted a continuance yesterday by Judge Liberman until September 3. Bruten told the court he wanted to obtain the services of an attorney. Meanwhile Camden police under orders of Chief Arthur Colsey were continuing their investigation opened last Saturday into reports that minors were being sold liquor in various sections of the city. It was reported proprietors of a number of liquor establishments would be ordered to appear before Chief Colsey today for questioning. The probe resulted from facts uncovered by Patrolman John V. Wilkie with the arrest of a runaway Maple Shade girl last week. It was reported the State Department of Alcohol Beverage Control had detailed several investigators to Camden to conduct a separate inquiry into the matter of selling liquor to minors. At Newark, Deputy Commissioner Garrett in charge of law enforcement said he knew nothing of the report. Bridgeman entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of violating Section 5 of the Camden city ordinance covering the sale of liquor on Sunday. Lieutenant Frost presented as evidence 13 glasses, all of which contained beer, which he said were seized when he and Thompson followed a customer into Bridgeman's establishment Sunday afternoon. Five men and two women were in the place, Lieutenant Frost testified, three of the men standing up against the bar and two men and the women along with Bridgeman were seated in the backroom. Bridgeman protested he sold no beer, giving away to all who were in his place because they were friends of his. Mrs. Mary Frank, 64, who resides in an apartment above the saloon and said she was a half-owner of the establishment, was also arrested by the raiders. Seven of the eight persons arrested in addition to Bridgeman, appeared in police court yesterday. They were charged with disorderly conduct and being material witnesses. The missing person, Ernest Ridge, 42, of 619 Cedar street, forfeited $10 security which he posted. The others who were discharged with 30-day suspended sentences included: Mrs. Frank, Miss Monica Aument, 23, of 1493 Kenwood avenue; Mrs. Marie Fisher, 41, of 1031 Segal street; Albert Moyer, 53, of 419 Erie street; Charles Luers, 30, of 10 York street; Charles Sevcik, 45, of 225 Milton street and Archibald Knox, 25, of 97 North street. In finding Bridgeman guilty, Judge Liberman declared the saloonkeeper had no authority to sell or even give beer away to his friends in a taproom on Sunday.