People v. Kindra

Lon», J.

The respondent was arrested and tried before the superior court of Grand Rapids for keeping his saloon open on the night of August 24, 1893. At the time in question, the respondent was running an hotel and saloon in the city of Grand Rapids; and, on the evening of that day, a dance 'was in progress in the hall upstairs, in the same building. The dance was concluded about 11 o’clock. On the part of the prosecution, it is claimed that, after the' dance, the witnesses Stoutjesdyk, Price, and Rittenberg, together with Lou Thayer and her sister and one May Wyman and several others, came…