Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-03 | Page 9 | Frisco Police Facing Charge Free on Bond

FRISCO F POLICE fACING CHARGE I FREE ON BOND i Lieutenant L and Two Patrolmen Patrol Patrolmen I men Accused of Aidin Aiding Aidin Rum Runners to Land Lanc I Cargo All AU Suspended I 4 I SAN FRANCISCO Feb 3 Three Thre Three C Cit S San an Francisco arrested it w with ith seven alleged liquor smuggler smugglers S i I In n n what hat prohibition agents charge Wan wa 5 I a an n attempt to j 1 unload an illicit r S shipment fre from San mystery mys i t tery ery ship ship were free tree under bond toi to to- i d day ay but stood suspended from the po po- po l lice ice department and mu must t face charges charge s I o of f conspiracy to violate the d I I a act ct t. t The 1 f field three three Lieutenant Lieutenant D. D H II Brasfield Bras Bras- I- I and Patrolmen Mark M. M Willeve a and nd 1 i 1 William Barlon were Barton were taken after p pistols ha had been r t drawn during an al al- al 1 with dry ag agents who swooped swoops d d down own on the dock where tho the vessel vesse tI was being unloaded by small boats boat S. S Brasfield said he h had d been drawn 1 t thither hither by trailing six which slipped south with a an apparent I a attempt to evade notice and had picked u up p the two patrolmen to aid him in I a arresting the liquor runners he expected exI ex- ex I IP to catch i DRY AGENTS MAKE CHARGES Dry agents on the other hand charge t that hat the policemen were were at the obscure d dock ock j I twelve miles mUes from here her where I t the he i arrests were made for th the purPose pur pur- P pose ose of protecting the liquor handl handlers rs Samuel F F. Rutter prohibition director j i f for or California said last night I There is la no doubt about police of- of f clearing the way way for tor the the smug- smug I g lens Rutter also I asserted that fedI fed fed- fedral e eral ral officers had long been aware that I s some ome San Francisco policemen were P protecting the landing of ot liquor carI car car- goes I The policemen however were exonerated exon exon- e of complicity in the affair in lii a statement the arresting officials said t they hey haa had obtained from Frank Duffy Duy o one ne of the seven alleged smugglers taken in the raid According to this statement the officers appeared with wiLl drawn pistols about the time Ume the dry agents arrived ALLEGED LEADER ESCAPES Duffy Duy further was quoted as saying t the tho he liquor was to have havo been disposed of through a storehouse In San Fran d cisco isco He said a man named Joseph Henderson had hired him to drive one of the six trucks commissioned to bring t the he liquor to San Francisco and credIted cred cred- i ted Henderson with being the directIng directing direct direct- ing head of the operations He said Henderson escaped when tho the dry agents came upon th the th scene Beene Local police officials promised that t their heir three comrades would be prosecuted prosecuted pros pros- with as much vigor as aa would have been the case if it they they- were civil cIvil- i ians ans should It be shown that there is sufficient evidence to bring them to trial