Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-21 | Page 2 | Six Arrested as Members of Bootleg Ring

I six mm ARRESTED 1 AS MEMBERS Of BOOTlEG RING Apprehension in Idaho Follows Exposure of J Wallace Gang rig in s S. L LA A total o of ot six arrests were made Thursday morning by py local officers In tn various Idaho cities acting In op co-op operation co-operation with federal prohibition tion officers from the Salt Lake office according to telephonic re reports reports reports re- re ports received by the latter shortly before noon today These arrests all of which result from further investigation in of the tile alleged Wallace bootleg- bootleg ring un uncovered Uncovered uncovered un covered in Salt Lake se several seral ral weeks weeks' ago apo brings the tot total l of of th those thoe e taken Into custody In the the last forty-eight forty hours to eight John Sandman n and O. O J. J Richardson having been arrested In Ogden n Wednesday Those arrested Th Thursday Thursday- r rda rda- da and the places plaes where the they were taken into custody as given Riven out by hy the me federal fedral officers follow Coffin at Downey Downe Id Ida S. S B. B MitcH cH at Pocatello an unnamed Italian said to be he the own r of ota a a. a pool b hall ball ll at Burley Burle Oscar Walker Walk r rat at Twin Rudy at lit Boise and Jack at Twin Falls Sandman and Richardson who were brought b to Salt Lake in the county Jail following g their arrest Wednesday y ha have e meanwhile been released l on a bond of 1500 each for which they ar ar- ed when taken before United states Commissioner H H. V V. Van Pelt PeU VI With h reference rence to the operations operation of the V Wallace rIn ring In this thU ci city and elsewhere the federal enforce enforcement ment officers rs declare th that t their trip through Idaho and the Pacific Northwest from which they jU just t returned netted them a n lot of ot ad additional ad- ad evidence Harr Harry and Abe Wallace Vallace and the rest bf of f those previously tak taken n I into to cus tody In this city The Wallaces and half haIr haIra i u a dozen of their alleged partners are now out on bonds awaiting awaiting- the action of the federal federl l grand Jury The trip from which the officers lust fust returned took them as far tar as Spokane in whIch city they sa say they found and seized a a. shipment of twenty one cases of liquor which had been shipped from Salt alt Lake Take by the Wallace ring a few days previous to their thelt arrest here three weeks ago