Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-26 | Page 16 | Arrest is Made in Ogden Liquor Case

ARREST IS IDE II QUI LIQUOR CASE Alleged Shipper Taken in Custody Near Elko, Nev.; Held for Hearing. I M t In connection with the seizure of five trunks of- liquor at the residence of John Browning, 2500 Tyler avenue. Ogden. Wednesday evening by George Birdsall. of the local office of the lireau of investigation investiga-tion of the department of justice. John Doe Delaney, alleged shipper of the liquor at Oakland, was arrested early yesterday morning. He was taken from the westbound west-bound Southern Pacific train near KIko. : Nev., and was taken to San Q-ancisco where he is being held. Anotlrer man, by the name of Brazil, according to local federal officers, is under arrest at San Francisco, in connection with the liquor shipment. In his statement of the affair yesterday John Browning said he left Ogden last Sunday to go to Duckville to his shooting shoot-ing club and returned Thursday evening. Wednesday evening he said Mrs. Browning Brown-ing called him on the phone and reported re-ported the seizure of the liquor from their residence. He said he thought tlie matter mat-ter was so unimportant that he took 00 further notice of it. not realizing at the time how it could possibly connect him with the liquor shipment. In the first statement Mr. Browning is reported to have somewhat jokingly remarked that he was not in the wholesale whole-sale liquor business and did not know anything about the shipment which had been intercepted on his porch. He sajd ft did not belong to him and he thought be had been a victim of circumstances. He said he had not seen any representative representa-tive of the department of justice and did not know that any suspicion existed that he was to receive the liquor. Later in 'the day Mr. Browning told of his wife being summoned home Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon from her mother's and of finding the five trunks upon the back porch of the home and a man waiting for her. It is asserted by Mr. Browning that 'his wife told the man who was waiting that the trunks were not intended in-tended for them and did not belong there and thev did not. expect them, after which the trunks were hauled away to the sheriff's sher-iff's office. James H. Brown, the train baggage agent and electrician, who was arrested immediately after the seizing ofthe liquor. Is held In the county Jail at Ogden as a "U. S. prisoner Investigation." He has not been allowed to see any person other than the attendants at the county jail.