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Show SIES FOB JUITO TAKEN ifl E LIQUOR RI i Machine Is One Used in the Transportation of Contraband Con-traband Goods. .Special to The Tribune. OGDfeX, Sept. 2S. Contending that an automobile oout iseated by sheriff's deputies in a liquor raid is wrongfully held, V. A. Hiekenlooper, au Ogden real estate dealer, has begun suit in the district court against Sheriff fl. C. Peterson to recover $o00 damages and $700 additional if the ear cannot be recovered. re-covered. The automobile has been in possession of the sheriff's office since September -"j. As the result of his arrest, and the confiscation of the automobile Hiekenlooper Hieken-looper is charged with having liquor in his possession, but he has not yet been tried. On September 5, according to the sheriff, Hiekenlooper was caught in the act of assisting A. Grosser io remove re-move a quantity of whisky from a rooming house on Twenty-second street. The liquor, which was claimed by Grosser, Gros-ser, was being placed in Hiekenlooper 's automobile. The arrests and confiscation of the liquor and automobile occurred about midnight. Grosser was removing the liquor from his room, according to evidence, evi-dence, introduced at his trial, because he learned of a threatened raid by the officers. Hiekenlooper is alleged to have said that he permitted the use of his automobile merely as a friendly act for the proprietor of the rooming house. At his trial a week ago Grosser was found guilty by a jury and fined $250. Under the provisions of the state. law Sheriff Peterson said he expected -no-trouble in holding the automobile as a vehicle in which intoxicating liquor was found. |