Story from John Vonderlin
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Half Moon Bay Scofflaws/1906 from the March 23, 1906 issue of the “San Francisco Call”
LIQUOR SELLERS
HEAVILY FINED
San Mateo County Officials
Begin Campaign Against
Violators of License Law
TWO MEN. CONVICTED
Authorities Determined to
Put an End to Resorts
Haunted by Bad Characters
Special Dispatch to The Call.
REDWOOD CITY, March 22— County
officials are operating from this city a
campaign for the suppression of the sa-
loons that have sprung up in the Half-
moon Bay district like mushrooms after
a rain. The illegal resorts are being con
ducted contrary to law and without
license of any sort. They have become
places of rendezvous for idle and crimi-
nal characters, who prey upon the entire
district. Scores of these tramps have
been attracted to the coast section by the
building of the Ocean Shore Railroad and
the authorities have determined to rid
the county of them.
After a journey of several days through
the district, Constable James Cronk and
his deputies of this city arrested P. E.
Fleming and S. Mori, who were conduct-
ing saloons In the San Pedro Valley with
out a license. The men were taken to
the County Jail and upon their appear-
ance, before Judge Hannon, they pleaded
guilty. Fleming was fined $120 and Mori
$50.
