From Watertown Daily Times - November 10, 1919

Antwerp, Nov. 10. -- Caught with $800 worth of Canadian whiskey in the tonneau of their touring car when it turned over near here at 6 this morning, three men were arraigned before Justice of the Peace W. S. Wilson this afternoon. Dan Garmen, who gave his address as 600 Water street, Watertown, chauffeur of the car, was arraigned on the charge of driving the car while intoxicated. He asked that he might consult John H. O’Brien, a Watertown attorney, and the hearing was adjourned until tomorrow morning. Eugene Bonomon and Bert Parsyn, who said they were from Potsdam, were held as witnesses. It was said the whiskey was being taken to Watertown.

The fourth man, whose home is said to be in Watertown, and whose first name, the police say, is “Charlie” is the man who is alleged to have purchased the whiskey in Montreal, and he made good his escape after the car had overturned about half a mile from the village on the Philadelphia state road. While his three companions remained with the car he sought safety, and police had been unable to find any traces of him although they had kept a close watch throughout the county.

District Attorney Jerome B. Cooper and Sheriff Michael Gleason came here from Watertown this afternoon when Garmen, Bonomon and Parsyn had their hearing.

Garmen said at the hearing this afternoon that he was employed by the fourth man to drive his car to Montreal to get the case of whiskey. He said he was to receive $35 for the trip. The two men went to Montreal last week, he said, and left for home Saturday in his Chevrolet touring car. When they got to Potsdam the car broke down, and at a garage there they hired Parsyn to take them to Watertown. At Potsdam they also picked up Bonomon, it was said.

Sheriff Gleason took the three men to the county jail at Watertown and will bring them back tomorrow morning for the hearing.

Garmen, Bonomon and Parsyn were arrested this morning about 8 by Deputy Sheriff George Johnson, on the Philadelphia state road, about half a mile from Antwerp. They had left Potsdam about 2:30 this morning and were on their way to Watertown when the car overturned.

After the car was overturned three of the four men who had been occupants of it remained with the car. The other escaped and police are now searching for him. The plight of the three men was discovered about daybreak by a farmer on his way to the factory. Although the farmer did not suspect the load which was under the overturned automobile he did suspect that the men had been drinking and on his arrival at the factory notified Deputy Sheriff Johnson.

When the deputy sheriff went to the scene and investigated he found underneath the car a case of Canadian whiskey valued at $800. The men were on their way to Watertown, but whether they planned to dispose of the whiskey there or not was not known. The car was badly damaged, one wheel being broken and the rest of the car somewhat smashed up.

Johnson arrested the three men on the charge of having liquor in their possession and took them to the jail. District Attorney Jerome B. Cooper of Watertown was notified and he came to Antwerp this afternoon to represent the people at the hearing before Justice of Peace W. S. Wilson (name unclear) in the town of Antwerp.

It was charged that the driver of the car was intoxicated, which caused the accident.

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Your typist (webhost) couldn’t help but notice the advertisements which appeared in the newspaper (a Tuesday) from which the above article was copied. Someday it is my hope to do a section on how people spent their entertainment time:

2:30, Stops at 8:30
11c to come in and have one dance,
5c buys any dance thereafter. Big
orchestra.
L. Irwin, Mgr.