Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-28 | Page 1 | Prohis Rapped for Running Speakeasy for Entrapment; Court Frees Police

Rapped for Running Speakeasy For Entrapment Court Frees Police a Br BT Press Peru CHICAGO July 28 28 Censuring Censuring three prohibition agents for lor operatIng Ing ng a n pool speakeasy room-speakeasy solely for forthe forthe the purpose of entrapment the United Unit ed States circuit court of appeals has hasl acquitted five fl Indianapolis policemen i of charges of conspiring to violate the national prohibition act The decision returned late yesterday yesterday yester yester- day reversed a a. lo lower lo er court conviction ron comic tion Hon under which the officers were sentenced ent to ro from 60 days to 4 months on charges of protecting liquor sell sell- sellin in ing The policemen were Martin OBrien O'Brien Claude Ralph Lambert David J. J Curran and Thomas Thom Thorn as Gray Evidence was the agents engaged Horace Lyle negro dry informer to ro operate a speakeasy and that the policemen policemen po po- po had drinks there Judge Evan A. A Evans Evaris wrote the federal court decision which said The methods used shocked the courts court's sense ense of Justice That there was a n. conspiracy to violate the prohibition law there can be no doubt The conspiracy was conceived conceived conceived con con- by three prohibition agents who enlisted the service ice of a decoy We think there Is a aast vast ast difference differ differ- ence between the use of decoys for forthe forthe forthe the purpose e of detecting crimes and apprehending criminals and the use of or decoys to Induce others to join an unlawful conspiracy originated by the government f for r tile the purpose of I securing the violation of laws by others I