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Show WOMAN SAYS . HARRIES OFFICE ORDERED DEAL : - I Cabaret Owner Declares ' Turn bow Proposed to Drop Charge If She Would Aid in Capture Tha sheriffs dTfle entered Into an ajTnnt with Mrs. R. B. Nuck-olla, Nuck-olla, proprietor of a cafe and cabaret at 401 Thirty-third South atreet. to drop a charts of main-ilnlnir main-ilnlnir a disorderly house. If she would .permit Chief Crfjnjnal Deputy Sheriff Joseph Turn bow to hide In her yard and witness a liquor purchase transaction In order to trap a suspected boottecrer known to the officers as "Dutch-Miller, "Dutch-Miller, according; to her statement this morning at a heating of the county commissioners, who had aummed'ber to appear before the! , board to explain why her license ahould not be revoked as reoom-mended reoom-mended by Sheriff Ben H.. Har-rles. Har-rles. Several months t-go a license was granted to Mrs. Nucholls to conduct con-duct a cabaret 'on Thirty-third 'South street until July 1. at which time it was agreed that she would have" tha permit renewed If she maintained her place In accordance accord-ance with regulations which would assure the conduct of a respectable Place. . CAK PENDING. 1 Tn May Mra Nuckolls was arrested ar-rested on a charge of maintaining a dlaorderty place. The case Is still pending. On the night of May tl Deputy Turn bow Is alleged to hare called at Mrs. Nucholls' place of business end to hare notified her that aha must close her plaoe Immediately. Aajted for an explanation. Turn-bow, Turn-bow, according to Mra. Nuckolls, aald that he had evidence of her engaging In bootlegging and had the word of ten wltneases that ah wa selling liquor. "Turn bow asked m If- T would call up Dutch Miller end have him deliver six pints of liquor to my place," Mrs. Nuckolls said. "He aald ha would hide In the yard and when the boose came he'd arrest Miller. He told ma that If I'd do that for him bed see mat the charge of maintaining a disorderly place waa dropped." HARRIES DENIES CHARQE. . j Sheriff Harrlea idterrupted the wltnees to tell tha eomtntaalonere that aon of hi deputies had mde such an arrangement with Mr Nuckolls whereby -he woman would be entitled to any consideration for swing In the rin'- down of bootleggers. boot-leggers. "My office does not permit the drinking, the aale or purchasing of drinks In order to oatch bootlegger," bootleg-ger," Bherlff Harrlea aald. "I am aura that Deputy Turnbow did not make any arrangements with Mra Nuckolls to allow her to continue her business If she aided one of my deputiea to catch a bootlegger." At thia Juncture the bearing waa 'adjourned until thla afternoon, when Deputy Turnbow will be asked to appear before the board to tell hla side of the story. |