Show I I 25 ASKED FOR PROTECTION COHEN AVERS 1 Merchant l e cleant Says He Imported Whisky After Sergeant Promised Safety Herald SD Special lat Ogden Nov XO 22 Stating 22 Slating that SerIt J J. J 1 F. F pioneer police pollee official of or OGden had agreed as that 25 would guarantee guarantee guar guar- antee police pollee prot protection If liquor were ivere brought Into Ogden O den Ben Den Cohen clothIng cloth cloth- clothing in Ing merchant 5 Twenty fifth street appeared before Municipal Jud Judge o oGeorge George S. S Barker today at tho the public Investigation In ordered b by the tho elt city com corn missioners The investigation was wa held in the council chamber of ot the city hall There were present Mayor T T. S. S Browning Dro Commissioners Mlles Miles I J. J Jones and Chris Flygare Chief of Poll Police T T. D. D Brown Brown- Ing In Captain of O. O II H. Bert Herrick T. T Emmett ant and somo citi clU- clUI I zens J J. J G. G Willis UlI conducted the In estl investigation a- a tion and W. W R R. Skeen was counsel for Cohen Cohen testified that he had known I for tor about bout eighteen years ears He said that t about ten days cloys prior to October October October Oc Oc- tober L'S LS S Sergeant Kelliher and he had hat talked about bringing whisk whisky Into Ogden Ogden Og- Og den and anel that the sergeant told him ho coul could gain protection b by paying 25 5 He lie stated that his went to Wyoming Wy iVy y oming October 28 and that Sergeant came Into his store t that at afternoon afternoon aft aft- and asked when she he would ro- ro re turn rO 1 Train Train Met Iet 1 It f According to tho the witness K Kelliher Kel Kel- I-I I met Mrs Cohen at the tha station statton where Cohen picked up a suitcase containing containing containing con con- two twenty pints of oC whisky whIsk After the tho h handle ha had broken he carried carried carried car car- ried the suitcase to the police automobile automobile automo automo- bile bite and put it in the back of or the car Then his hla wife and nel Kelliher drove e to tho the Cohen home no Twenty sixth street the witness declared Ho He said that about an hour afterward afterward after ater- ward Kelliher appeared 1 at th the store tor torand and told Cohen they would have havo to take the whisky k to the tho police station The They went to tho house tho the witness averred found tho the whisky whisk unpacked with one bottle broken and ancl took toole the remaining tw twenty one one nt-one bottles to tho the station tatton I Later ator Cohen was c called to the tho station station sta sta- tion b by Captain C Captain and Chief Browning had ex examined examined examined ex- ex the police automobile and had found It scented with whisk whisky Cohen Cohen stated state that he was required to pa pay 10 ball bail and that I Kelliher told him he need not give his proper name nam i Mm Mra Cohen In Ir r Mrs r Cohen te testified that she he went to Wyoming and that In Ogden she was drivon n homo home in the police automobile with the suitcase Bert llert Herrick tol told of ot peeing the transaction tr at the station statton and of or relating re relating ro- ro lating the circumstances to Chief of rf P Browning Drowning T. T Emmett declared that ho overheard overheard over over- heard the tho conversation between Kelliher Kelli- Kelli her and Cohen at Cohens Cohen's place of or bus bus- iness Chief Browning was placed on the tho stand and ancl started to tell what ho ha had learned of ot the transaction Tho The Investigation investigation was waa then adjourned until a a. a m m. tomorrow Georgo George II and Richard M. M Price department of Justice agents were present at the hearing It Is understood un un- that they will look into the case as it is said paid to concern a n violation vIolation violation viola vIola- tion of tho Reed amendment to the Kenyon ebb at art ad t. t |