Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-25 | Page 16 | U . S . Agents Seize Ogdenite's Liquor

U, S. AGENTS SEIZE ! DGDEMTE'S LIQUOR Contraband Shipped From California Taken From Browning Home. Department of justice agents late Wednesday Wed-nesday night seized at the residence of John Browning, 2500 Tyler avenue. Ogden, five trunks, each one of which contained one teVgallon barrel of high grade whiskey. whis-key. In connection with the seizure of tlxp liquor the federal agents arrested James H; Brown, 47 years of age, at his I lodging in Ogden. who, acting as the train i baggageman, saw the shipment through from California. James Delaney, who is alleged to have shipped the liquor from Oakland. CM., will be arrested in that city by government agents. The seizure of the liquor and the arrest ar-rest of the men who had anything to do with the shipment, was accomplished by the California department of justice agents . working in connection with the Salt Lake office, under the direction of Special Agent George Bird sell. One of the federal agents from San Francisco was a passenger on the train which carried car-ried the five trunks from San Francisco. It is stated that the shipment was first hilled to a small town In California near the Nevada line. When it arrived there, it is charged. Baggageman Brown tore off the tags on the trunks and rebilled them to Ogden. It is further alleged that the station agent had consented to such action. Upon the arrival of the train in Ogden late Wednesday afternoon, It Is said that Brown arranged with a drayman to get the five trunks at the depot and take them to the residence of Mr. Browning on Tyler avenue. The special agent, who came from California, met Agent Bird-sell Bird-sell at the union depot at Ogden. One of the officers followed the shipment to the Browning home. Upon the arrival of the drayman at the residence there was no one home, hut it Is said that the government agent was on hand and suggested to the drayman that he leave the consignment upon the back porch. A federal agent waited for sonif member mem-ber of the family to appear. Mrs. Brown-1 ins scon came. The conversation which touk place is said to have been something some-thing like the following: "Well, you see the five truns are here, Mrs. Browning?" Mrs. Browning is said to have replied that they had been expecting the trunks for some time, as the "stuff" they had in the house had been stolen. It is alleged al-leged that after the acknowledgment had been made by Mrs. Browning that the liquor shipment had been expected, the government agent then had an expressman express-man call at the residence for the five trunks and contents. As soon as the trunks wore taken to the sheriffs office a signal was given and Brown, the train baggageman, was placed under arrest. It is said that Brown told the federal officers that he had received re-ceived $7.50 to see that the shipment got through safely from California to "Mr. John Browning of Ogden." It is said the feJeral agents have information that a prominent attorney of Ogden may be implicated im-plicated in the case. Each trunk contained a ten-gallon barrel bar-rel of whisky. The revenue stamps on each barrel 1 nd letted that it had been placed in the barrels on October 15, 1P1S. Tho barrels were securely packed in each trunk, with a great quantity of excelMor and old quflis around It. No statement was made by Mr. Browning Brown-ing regarding tho liquor or the delivery of it to his house.