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Show COURT DECISION WILL ESTMMECEOENT Interest Centers in Case Where Baggagemen Refused Re-fused to Permit Search. Special to The Tribune. POCATELDO, Idaho, May 15. The trial of George T. Reece, baggage agent for the Oregon Short Line in this city, has been set for Friday in the city court. Reece was arrested a few nights ago by three city officers after he had refused to penult the officers to ransack two suitcases suit-cases that were in the baggayeroom under his custody. lne officers said that the grips looked suspicious and wanted to search them for contraband liquor. When the officers demanded de-manded the suitcases Reece aked the officers for a search warrant, which the officers have not been in the habit of obtaining heretofore in going through suitcases, suit-cases, whether in the baggageroom or carried car-ried by individuals. When the offfcers were refused access to the suitcases Reece was placed under arrest. Much Interest centers on the outcome of the case, as the searching of suitcases by officers is not alone confined to Poca-(ello, Poca-(ello, but has long since become a custom cus-tom by officers In Idaho and elsewhere, and many grips have been opened and the contents rumpled up and no liquor found. Then, when the owners redeemed their grips and found that they had been tampered tam-pered with, they placed the blame on the railroad companies and no end of trouble has resulted. |