Show SAYS OfFICER PROMISED HIM SHORTER TERM City Prisoner Testifies Purity Purity Purity Pur Pur- ity Squad Man Made Offers Offers Offers Of Of- fers If He Would Give Evidence Against Vender That he was given a a. a promise by C. C J J. Walker member or of the purity squad of the city poll police pollee e force to have his sentence in th the city Ity Jail lightened if It he would testify against II H. H. H Lewis charged with violating the federal federal federal fed fed- eral narcotic act before the federal grand Jury during its recent session was testified to today in the United States district court by Fred Sollis I serving a sentence for petit larceny Thomas Ramage attorney for Lewis and Cupid Hue Huey in the trial of ot the two for tor violating the federal drug act which began this morning before Judge Tillman Tinman D. D Johnson also brought out the evidence that Sollis found a a. package of ot morphine in the padded cell of ot the city Jail following a talk with Walker and Officer C. C Belknap on the same day that the former had given the alleged promise of ot shortening his Jail sentence Sollis testified that the two purity squad officers visited him in the city Jail shortly before the grand Jury Indicted Lewis and Huey and that Walker after asking aslIn- him if It he had bought drugs from Lewis and he had answered in the affirmative asked Ithe If It he would testify to this fact If it his sentence was shortened He said that the two officers then left the Jail and that they returned later and called him the padded cell cen He testified that after atter further conversation they I again left and that he then discovered the morphine on the window sill of ot the cell cen Assistant United States Attorney Cannon sought to have Sollis Sollis' testimony testimony testimony mony excluded from the records as asfar asfar asfar far as it concerned Officers Walker and Belknap and the alleged promise and finding of the morphine but Judge Johnson permitted it to stand Sollis testified that he would go to extreme lengths to obtain drugs while using them but declared that his testimony regarding having bought drugs from Lewis was true None of his testimony connected Huey with the alleged drug selling |