| Show Charged With Illegal al V Confiscation l LuND D A ACCUSED O Of U U H f FOR WN i Impersonating an Officer I I and Confiscation of Li-i Li Liquor Liquor Li Li- quor Is Alleged Against Member of Police Force F FOR OR alleged impersonation of an officer and the confiscation confiscation confiscation tion of a quantity of liquor Arthur E. E Lund a member of the city police poUce department is criminally crim crim- criminally charged in a complaint issued today by the county attorney Lund is charged ed with impersonating W. W E. E chief criminal deputy sheriff In order to confiscate a quantity t ty of ot liquor from the home of 0 A. A W. W V. V Singleton West Vest Fifteenth South street The offense otense Is alleged to have been committed on August 25 Deputy swore to the complaint The action is brought on the ground that r Lund und in company with two other members of 0 the police department viSited visited visited vis viS- the Singleton home represented themselves as deputy sheriffs and took possession of 0 the wet goods Lund who is alleged to have told Singleton that he was Is the only officer of the trio to be charged KEPT LIQUOR The contention is made in the complaint complaint complaint com com- plaint that Lund confiscated the liquor for his own use and did not turn it into the police department or commence proceedings against Singleton for vio violation lo- lo lation of the prohibition law which makes the possession of 0 liquor in a a. ahome ahome home a crime Following the Issuance of 0 the complaint com com- plaint Sheriff John S. S Corless stated that the affair was only one of numerous numerous numerous nu- nu similar instances In which private private I vate ate stocks of have been confiscated confiscated confiscated con- con by persons representing tHemselves themselves themselves tHem- tHem selves as officers Sheriff Corless issued a statement to the public that no citizen Is under obligation ob obligation obligation ob- ob of any kind to allow any person person person per per- son to search their house Or premises without a properly drawn search warrant war warrant war war- rant Issued by the courts He Ire says that In eV every ry instance where a search Is made his deputies are armed with official warrants Since the commission of 0 the alleged offense Lund has been relieved of his duties with the police purity squad and assigned to the traffic division The liquor alleged to have ha been confiscated confiscated confiscated con con- by L Lund nd and his associates has not been recover recovered d. d Singleton claims that the liquor was left at his house b by a a. friend who was visiting In m California |
