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Show CLERGY MAY lit LIQlJf8EITII Ministerial Association Displeased Dis-pleased Over Action in Prouty Case. Special to Th& Tribune. OGDEN, Dec. "0. no to the action of the Ogden commissioners on the recommendation recom-mendation of Mayor A. R- Heywood in reducing the penalty for H. R. Prouty, convicted of bootlegging, the Ofrden Ministerial Min-isterial associntion plans to renew the case in the district court, nccorrtinc to the announcement of the Hew Christian R Gorver, pastor of the Pirat Methodist church and secretary of the organization. Countv Attorney Charles U Farr is said to have promised members of the association asso-ciation that he wilt proceed ag-ainst Prouty as If the ease was a new action started by the county. Following his arrest by police officers for the allesed sale of liquor at the Weber hotel on Twenty-fifth street, Prouty was tried before a jury in the municipal court and convicted. In pronouncing pro-nouncing sentence Judse Georsre S. Barker Bark-er declared that It was high time to put an end to bootlegging and made the Penalty Pen-alty six months In jail, without the usual privilege of Prouty paying a fine. Oh the recommendation of Mayor Hevwood. after Proutv had appealed to the district court, the city commissioners set aside Judse Barker's sentence and releeased Proutv upon payment of a fine of S2n0, which is S99 less then the maximum fine which can be prescribed under the law. While the members of the ministers' association do not seem to question the authoritv of the mayor and commissioners commission-ers to take the action reducing the sentence, sen-tence, they are operating on tiie belief that the same evidence used in the municipal mu-nicipal court ense can be renewed under a prosecution started by Weber countv through the county attorney, the trial to take place in the district court. |