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Show IHDi Alleged Conspiracy Involves In-volves J. H. DeVine, John Browning, Joseph Eccles. The seizure of five trunks, containing "heavy shipments of whisky and other intoxicating in-toxicating liquors, last week at the home of John Browning at Ogdcn promises to bring to light a well Organised gang of bootleggers which, since the first of the year, is believed to have shipped thousands of dollars' worth of liquors, as baggage, from San Francisco to Salt Lake and Ogden. Complaints charging John Browning, sd'n of John M. Browning, inventor of the Browning machine gun, and six other San Francisco and Ogden men with entering en-tering into a conspiracy to ship wholesale whole-sale quantities of liquor into Utah, were sworn - to yesterday in the federal court, according to in format In received last nlgnL from San Francisco. According to E. M. Blanford, chief of the bureau of Investigation,, department of justice in San Francisco, the others In the alleged whisky smuggling conspiracy are J. if. DeVine. an Ogden attorney; Joseph Eccles. Ec-cles. president of the Amalgamated Sugar company of Ogden ; 1 loiacc M. Brazil and James. F. Delaney, express messengers of San Fiapcisco: R; E. Price, a baggageman baggage-man of San Francisco, and James H. Browne, a train electrician of Oakland! Brazil, Delaney and Price are reported to be under arrest in San Francisco. Orders for the arrest of DeVine, ISecles and Browning are said to have been tele-giaphed tele-giaphed to Ogden. Thousands Invested. According to agents of the department of justice In San Francisco, who unearthed un-earthed the alleged bootlegging operations, after several months' investigation, the San " Francisco members of the gang bought thousands of dollars' worth of liquors from San Francisco firms, obtaining obtain-ing it in ton-gallon kegS which were racked into trunks and the latter labeled as passengers' baggage, it is alleged to have been shipped on overland trains on which Brazil and Delaney operated as messengers for the American Express company. Price as baggageman a nd Browne as train e'ectrician. with Salt I Lake and Ogden as destinations. . Main of the trunks are said, by the investigators, in-vestigators, to have been shipped to prominent hotels and residences in Salt Lake as well as to fashionable homes in Ogden. Government agents say that the (Continued on Page Two.) 1 II DGDENITE II WHISKY 16 'Continued from Page One.) ring is one of the most extensive in operation that has been unearthed in years. Brazil and Delaney were taken before United States Commissioner Francis Krull in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and. according to report, they made a full confession, involving also San Francisco liquor firms alleged to have sold the liquor to members of the ring. Co-operating with the San Francisco office of the bureau of investigation, the Salt Lake office, under direction of David Gershon, is conducting an investigation in Ogden. Operations have been unearthed, un-earthed, it is said, which may result In the arrest of eight or ten other residents of Ogden in connection with the alleged conspiracy. It is probable that all of the complaints in the case will emanate from San Francisco Fran-cisco and that after indictments have been returned the cases will be brought to trial in San Francisco, also. The prosecution will be conducted by Mrs. Annette A. Adams, temporary United States district attorney, in that city. |