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Show DESCRIBES THEFT Of Oul-CofjllCE Head of Dry Squad in Seattle Testifies for the Prosecution. SEATTI.;-:, Wash., March 13. Sergeant Ser-geant Victor L. Putnam, head of the dry squad of the' Seattle police force, and described by Logan Billingsley, chief witness for the prosecution, as a "niau who could not be bribed," told in court today of the return to Billingsley of documentary evidence showing Billingsley Bil-lingsley 's large liquor imports from ban Francisco. The defendants in the so-called whisky whis-ky graft case are Mayor Hiram J. Gill, said bv Billingsley to have accepted a $4000 bribe for the return of the documentary docu-mentary evidence and the- cessation of pending prosecutions; Chief of Police Charles L. Beckingham, former Sheriff Robert T. Hodge, and four city detectives. detec-tives. Putnam told of having raided Billinsrs-ley's Billinsrs-ley's drug store last duly, seizing.at the time correspondence, hills and advices o shipments from a San Francisco liquor wholesaler. The papers showed forgery of coimtv ne.rmif.s to iinnort Huuor. Put nam said, and information charging Logan Lo-gan Billingsley with forgery were filed later by the prosecuting attorney's office. of-fice. ' r Putnam further testified that he refused re-fused three demands from his superiol officer, Polico Captain Sullivan, that he surrender this evidence to Sullivan, but finally gave the evience to Sullivan when" Sullivan presented a written order from Chief of Police Beckingham. "An hour later," Putnam testified, "I saw Billingsley leave the building by a side door, carrying the papers. "A few days later Mayor Gill came to me with a complaint tliat he was be ing double-crossed. I told him 1 did not know who was double-crossing him; that he and the chief evidently understood under-stood each other. ' ' On cross-examination Putnam said he bad never been hampered or hindered in performance of his duties by Gill or Beckingham. Cross-examination was still uncompleted when court adjourned for the dav. Ora Billingsley, brother of Logan, tes-tiled tes-tiled that he had paid money to Police Detective Poolman, ono of the indicted men, for massing whisky into the city, and that Poolman had suggested to him the shipping of liquor to an Alaskan address ad-dress and diverting it. here a method afterward used extensively by the Bil-lingsleys. |