The Arlington Advocate, 14 March 1884
| Tuesday evening chief Mead and his assistants made another descent on Michael Lane's groggery, and this time were highly successful, capturing a quantity of whiskey and a lot of porter in bottles. |
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The Middlesex Townsman, 22 March 1884
| The "highly successful raid" on Michael Lane's "groggery," as our esteemed contemporary [The Arlington Advocate] was pleased to put it, wasn't quite so successful after all in the eyes of the law and Judge Orcutt. A "quantity" of whiskey appears to have been a quart, and a "lot" of porter scarcely as much. At any rate there was no evidence of sale and no more cause for the arrest of Lane than for the arrest of hundreds of other men in town who keep liquor in their houses for their own use. Lane's trial took place Monday, Lawyer Tuttle appearing as his counsel; there was no counsel for the prosecution. Judge Orcut found no case and discharged Lane. |
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