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Show tUND SEEKING' TO PJ0JE ALIBI Policeman Identified by Singletons; Presence at Station Is Recorded. Hearing was begun yesterday before City Judge J. W. Strlngfellow in the case of A. E. Lund, city policeman, charged with having impersonated W. K. Schoppe, chief deputy of the sheriff's office, fn confiscating four cases of whisky from the residence of A. W. Singleton, 246 West Thirteenth South street, and of having failed to make a return upon the liquor. Upon the witness sta nd duri ng the greater part of the morning. Mr. Singleton Single-ton positively Identified Lund as the man who, posing as S -hoppe, made demand for the liquor and obtained it. He said be had known him before by sigh I, having seen Lund In uniform. Cross-examination failed to shake the story of the witness in any particular. Mrs. Singleton testified also, identifying Lund. Mr. Singleton said that, bccau.se of remembering to have seen Lund In a policeman's uniform, he did not question his ciaim to being an officer, and did not know that he was not Schoppe. as the witness said Lund declared himself to be. Mr. Schoppe took the stand long enough to testify that on August Z'.l, the day on which the liquor viih confiscated, he was on his vacation fishing on the headwaters of the Weber river. J. Parley White, chief of police, wns called first by the state and Inter for the defendant. He terrified thy t Lund had never made any report of confiscation of liquor from the Singleton residence. Jjat'-r he gave refi'-imony to the effect that he knew Lund to have bjen in the public safety building on the night of August 23, shortlv after lit o'clock, having given him a detail of duty at thnt time. The time of the visit to the Singleton "residence for con fixation of the liquor was fixed bv both Mr. and Mrs. Slngh'ton at about 10 o'clock. They said that Lund left their place be 1 ore lu :lfi, ex pin In lug that they were sure of the time because of noticing It while waiting for their daughter to gt.t hotne from Saltalr. ( 'nptaln Henry Tnggart of the police department, testified for the. nefondant that Lund was at headquarter the entire evening from S o'clock until after I (1 o'clock, when he whs sent out on a detail by the chief. Testimony in Hupport of this wan given by MIhm Lrtbell Blvrell, who had been culled to headquarters to give information concerning a case upon which Lund was working. She said I bat Li.nd wan n her company in the room just east of the captain's office for most of the evening. Under crusH-examlnntlon. she admitted that he went out for a short time at about ID o'clock. The case will he resumed at 10 o'clock this morning. Cn plain Taggart was on the stand under crosH-exnmlnat Ion when court adjourned yesterday aft einoon. |