KNOCKOUT ENDS QUEST FOR WINE
Item
- Title
- KNOCKOUT ENDS QUEST FOR WINE
- Source
- Evening Journal (DE)
- Date
- 7/26/20
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042354/1920-07-26/ed-1/?sp=1&st=image&r=0.704,0.781,0.482,0.29,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- criminal assault, blunt object, weapon
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Fined
- Location
- In state, Wilmington DE
- Length of story
- 331
- Description
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KNOCKOUT ENDS QUEST FOR WINE
Campbell “Beaned” When He Asked for Quart Too Many, He Says
ASSAILANT ACUSED UNDER “DRY” LAWS
Insisting upon purchasing a third quart of wine while under the influence of a previous quart of the exhilarating beverage. Caleb Campbell was quieted by Rocco Casganoli with a blow from an empty bottle according to testimony heard in Municipal Court this morning, when Casganoli was given a hearing on a charge of assault and battery.
A fine of $50 and costs was imposed on the defendant by Judge Hastings.
The case of Joseph Maccari, charged with selling Campbell the wine at 233 Tatnall street, where the trouble accrued, was continued until Thursday at the request of Philip L. Garrett, who represented both defendants.
Campbell testified that on Saturday night he and another man bought and drank two quarts of wine at Maccari’s home, and took a quart away with them. He returned later to buy another quart and Maccari refused to sell him more, the complainant stated.
Campbell said he then called Maccari a liar and two men grabbed him while Casganoli knocked him senseless with a bottle, causing a gash on his forehead.
Campbell said that had he not been intoxicated he would have been too much of a man to allow Casganoli to get the better of him.
Mr. Garrett asked him if Maccari put him out of the house. “He didn’t put me out, but he knocked me out when he hit me with the bottle,” responded Campbell.
Campbell also showed knife cuts alleged to have been inflicted by Casganoli.
After the assault police raided the house and found five and a half barrels of alcohol wine and quantity of mash and grapes in various stages of fermentation.
Louis Dambrosia, said to have been associated with Maccari, was arrested on a charge of violating the Volstead act. In addition to the charge of selling intoxicating liquor without a license, a like charge is preferred against Casganoli.
