\u2018\u2019The Great Sandwich Hearing\u2019\u2019 which ran in three issues of the Gazette, January 5, 15, and 17, 1910.<\/p>\n
The headline reads…<\/p>\n
The Leeds Sandwich Case Develops the Existence of the Greatest Sandwich Industry of this Section and a Marked Weakness of Memory of Everything Else in Those Who Saw the Sandwiches.<\/p>\n
This case packed the courthouse to the doors, with frequent applause and great sympathy shown for the hotel.\u00a0 Nearly 20 witnesses were called to testify, among them agents of the Anti-saloon league, Arthur Labree who was assulted in Leeds…etc. Most of the witnesses had been in the habit of going to the hotel Sunday\u2019s, all of them testified they had sandwiches with their drinks. Two bartenders were required on Sundays. There was no demand\u00a0 for a hotel business in Leeds\u00a0 except on Sundays, and that the sandwiches that were sold were \u2018\u2019make-believe\u2019\u2019, and those going to the hotel were not guests in any sense of the word.<\/p>\n
This goes on for pages, the topic sections read like a crime novel; The Spotters, Saw No Drunkenness, Saw Drunken Men…this section mentions the bridge…\u2019\u2019W.M. Purrington of Haydenville testified that when riding on the electric cars he had seen men reeling across the bridge, which is near the hotel, and some of them got on the car.\u2019\u2019 Adelard Lavelle testified to \u2018\u2019frequently going to the hotel on Sundays to drink beer, but never without having sandwiches, he told Mr. Hammond that they felt the need of something to eat when they had a drink of beer\u2019\u2019. Other memorable highlights include; Had Been Shutoff, The Kaiser Keeps Silent, A Great Sandwich Business Done, Weak Memories Developed.<\/p>\n
After three days of interrigations, the prosecutors do get from the bartenders that they do sell as many as 200 drinks a day on Sundays, and then the pressure is upon the prosecutor to determine how they could not make 200 sandwiches for that day as well, which by this\u00a0 point the public is ridiculing their effort…\u2019\u2019We had supposed that the chief industry in Leeds was silk thread making but after that hotel license hearing we see our mistake;it is making sandwiches for Sunday. They must begin at it on Monday morning and keep at it till Saturday night. Everybody appears to take sandwiches out there on Sunday.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018\u2019The Great Sandwich Hearing\u2019\u2019 which ran in three issues of the Gazette, January 5, 15, and 17, 1910. The headline reads… The Leeds Sandwich Case Develops the Existence of the Greatest Sandwich Industry of this Section and a Marked Weakness of Memory of Everything Else in Those Who Saw the Sandwiches. This case packed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"yoast_head":"\n