Show Counterfeit Stamps on Fake Whisky firing Bring Trial trial Ot 01 Man tu in the United States District Court DEFENDANT IS ISTO TUO TO BE TRIED IN SMIE OF f ILLES 1 D Dewey ewey Conley Bro Brought Into U U. S. S Court to Face Ugly Charges Na Nationwide Nationwide Nation Nation- ion ion-i wide wid Traffic Is Suspected ll FOLLOWING a vain attempt i ito to have himself disqualified d because of sickness Dewey Conley Con Con- ConI Conley Conley I ley charged with having h ving used i counterfeit strip revenue revenue stamps on bottles of fake whisky whisky- was taken take before a Jury i In the United States district distrI t court cour today for trial Dr I Frank B. B Steele and Dr Warren Benjamin summoned by court and counsel said that Conley was labor labor- laboring ing under a nervous attack and that he was probably as read ready for trial at present as he would be In a week or ora or ora r ra a month United States District t Attorney Evans stated that he did not wish to force the issue and accordingly it was agreed with Judge Tillman D. D Johnson that the Jury might be drawn and selected and that if it the defendant was Incapacitated for tor the actual submission of evidence the case might go go over over until Monday The case is one of the Important criminal matters of r the present trial session of the United States court because of its Its' possible connection I with the n nationwide traffic in counterfeit counterfeit coun coun- I II terrett internal revenue stamps that I have been used ih the sale o of whisky y and alleged whisky all over I I the United States States- I SECRET SERVICE INTERESTED I This traffic is under investigation j I by the United States secret service 1 I and Was started all over the country 1 through the arrest of Conley here by 1 William II H. Davenport local head of or orthe the secret service and Detectives I Milner lUner and Leichter of the city police i j force It is claimed by the authorities authorities ties that Conley had In his possession i 1200 pint bottles bottes full fun of colored water sealed with the counterfeit stamps Samuel King and Mark MarIe P. P Braffet I attorneys for Conley have not indicated indicated indi- indi the line of their defense I It will develop in the course of the i trial according to the federal of officials officials officials of- of that proof was obtained that I many of the stamps alleged to to have j i I been used by Conley were printed at atI I various printing establishments In Inthis inthis' inthis this this' city 1 FIRMS CLAIM IGNORANCE I These concerns are are not to be crimI crim crim- crim j I charged It if is said becat because se they I j claimed d Ignorance of the fact that I they were breaking the law and had hadI I be been n printing the stamps in the general geni gen gen- enI en- en I Ibe i eral course of or business as well as asI I many other stamps used in sealing I various various' medical preparations which J purported f purported to issue under the authority au au- authority atI and with with the the consent of of the tho internal revenue department It will further develop it was said that stamps stamp printed elsewhere have come come cometo cometo I Ito to light in Salt Lake as well as the I engra engra from which they were made It Is thought that a great I ring of stamp peddlers exists in the West Vest as stamps have been taken following arrests in San Francisco and Denver j I j I I I I I I |