Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-18 | Page 2 | Witness Charges Fowler Planned to Bribe Deputies

CHAR CHARGES FOLER f PLANNED TO 10 BRIDE DEPUTIES David Priest Confessed Bootlegger r Accuses Accuse's Alleged Backer i Da David vitI Priest s t con confessed bootleg hiar Ulel testified in fn federal court Monday londay that William 1 Fowler iler had told him g- g going ging ing to fix up up de deputies nde Sheriff Ben R. R Harries Halli s' s an and that l was was men men- honed Priest WA was a n o i government nt w witness In the the- case a against Fowler which opened Ion l Monday lay forenoon before Judge Tillman DJ D. Johnson 1 Priest pleaded guilty last we week l toa too manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture facture- charge after ater testimony ony harl been brought out in hi which h li linked Fowler with the operation n of of f th the still at Third avenue avenue- The co rt ordered F. F wl rs PIOS cution after and Ton Ion Collins COU 13 had appeared on the witness stand T TELLS OF BOILER The boiler s said Id tb to 0 have n be-n taken taker from the county couI county ald also was wasa was wa's a a. live a live issue issue- at u the morning session Priest testified that he tog together ther with Fowler and anil a It person named Dean Dea had separate separate separate sep sep- arate trips trips' to the county count ja lyard and on ori the third occa occasion lon found foun their boiler sep separated rated trop i the copper copper copper cop cop- per heap with a kettle on h top of ot It Priest said tl that t financed w at after er he he had propositioned pr tji def The further said that h he had received very lit littie little lit lit- tIe tle t for his hil efforts efforts In the scheme Vere L. L McCarthy counsel f for r the defend defendant nt brought out on cross cro examination that that Ray nay Priest P iest a brother of the toe witness had pleaded guilty in Utah coun county on a liquor r charge The witness admitted they had bad operated a still In American Fork canyon The alleged alle ed v bribery ery ot or tile the tH sheriffs sheriff's sheriffs sheriff's sher slier iffs iff's deputies wa was not delved ed into extensively Priest Priest- ing that Fowler told him he e was was going to fix up the officers BOUGHT OWN cO COILS COILS LS a a. a ii trusty at ut i the c Bounty nt jail Joint the b boIler n r out to You Mr ir McCarthy ask asked the witness Priest denied an any such incident Mr McCarthy bI- bI brought out that the boiler said to have been taken from the J not have been used in th or manufacture without t the addition p of r coils colls ol s a a adom dom dome v and cj others other f appurtenances nO s Priest said he had purchased the theother theother theother other parts parts' after the b boiler had been obtained Collins who also was alleged to have been engaged in the tle operation of the still admitted that lie be had had no de dealings with ith Fowler r and and anc i that he lie had no not seen Fowler at th the I house fowler Priest previously said that Fowler dh not actually act ally make the liquor nor had bad he le ever seen the the defendant defendant I transport any moonshine from the place