Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-21 | Page 3 | No Padlock for Chicago Hotel

NO PADLOCK FOR HOTEL r e ow eY Discounts 1 1 Morrison Story tor Y ar I v r CHICAGO Jan 21 AP E. AP-E. P-E. P E. E C. C prohibition admInistrator administrator administrator adminis admInis- here has no Intention ana never had any of closing the 10 r F Morrison hotel by federal i f padlock proceedings because undercover undercover undercover under f cover agents were ablo able to purchase liquor from They're making a mountain out ofa oCa of A molehill the enforcement chief said Bald There are no Investigators there now and there have been no se secret ret Conferences with a view of ot padlocking the doors d It Edward Olson district attorney 1 slid said no evidence e against t the hotel had gone through his office 1 t Their heir T statements came after atter pro pro- agents working under Yel- Yel tr had declared sufficient evl- evl IJ de dence ce e had been boen obtained to close 1 the hotel and said the governments government's pl Plans ha had been t I spoiled by premature prema- prema e tU tine ture e publicity i. i l' l No hotel Is ever padlocked Olson 01 Ol- i son said unless officials of the hotel can be shown to have had 5 guilty knowledge Harry C. C Moir 1 president of ot the hotel company denied d having having- any such knowledge and reiterated his declaration that the hostelry had been framed by Its own A hotel detective named as having procured the liquor for the agent who posed as an Englishman de- de sirous of staging a party denied to Moll Moir that he had aided them Likewise a hotel official said in inthe inthe inthe the agents agent's alleged a report to have known of the presence of the liquor H- H quor said he was summoned to the scene of the party part by a a. ruse in order order order or or- der that an official of the hotel might see the liquor exposed