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Show IMPORTED DETECTIVES LOSE r CASE IN JUSTICE'S COURT Hi X .. One by the Name of "Happy Jack", From the Evidence Given Willingly Looked Upon the Wine .When it Was Red and ' Like the Others Imbibed Freely Jury Return Verdict of H Not Guilty. HV All who attended Judgo Branghnm's B siatlnc on Thursdny could not help jK but arrive nt the conclusion thut the tm thought actuating tho Instituton of tgm the recent so-called dotectlvo ngency eH Jn our midst was In lino with the vX idea that "It takes a crook to cuteh n jj crook." And by the tlrao the curtain jtS was rung down on tho final net tho '"'m y haJ u,lflweren w,tu that timo tj 0In ftml thoroughly truthful ndagc PM 'tho pot cannot call the kettle black." 4m Tho case, was ono wherein one of our III citizens was charged with Belling ffl whiskey, tho complaining witnesses FX being tho two budding Sherlock M Holmes (with duo apologies and H blushes for that distinguished gentle- M man) that have recently been opornt- M lag In our midst, ono going by tho m namo of Drown, tho other carrying the name of Perclval, but commonly known throughout his old haunts ns "Happy Jnck." Tho city was represented repre-sented by the city n'ttorney, whllo the defendant was represented by Attorneys At-torneys Rich and Law. Ilrlefly the history of the case may be Bald to date back to a number of years ago. The complaining witnesses', witnes-ses', -one of them at least appears to have known the defendant for a long time, In fact it Is Btatcd that "Happy Jack" with too.i breaking through tho leather, and patches on his trousers, was given a Job by the defendant at the State Fair. The two became qulto friendly, and ato and drank together. Upon being engaged ns detective for Logan City this hitherto beneficiary tU at tho hands of tho defendant, no doubt struck a hnppy thought to tho effect that In plylug his trado be would uso his old friend, ami If necessary ne-cessary sacrifice him to win, and tho case appeared to be the result of such attitude. It appears as tnougli the so-called detectives met the defendant one Saturday Sat-urday evening. They complained upon up-on this, bolng "jr "dry town" and they were "nrful dry," and a good drink of whiskey "Just for old times sako" would be "Oh, so nice," and "Now? old boy can't you rustle tho whlskoy for us?" Of course ho could and Inasmuch In-asmuch ns the friends from afar had the money, and furnished the money for the" whiskey the defendant went for the whiskey. Far omo reason or other thoy did not meet again that night, liut bright and early tho 'sleuths" presented themselves nt tho residence of tho defendant the next morning and wero "arful dry" again. Defendant was again provnllcd upon to "get somo whiskey" and again tho monoy was furnished. Tho whiskey was procured aud tho threo drank It, the so-called detectives demonstrating de-monstrating beyond tho question of a doubt that thoy woro "arful dry." Tho story then Is to tho effect that thoy all went to tho hotel where tho detectlvos produced soino inoio wblH-key wblH-key from a Jug nt their rooms which all three drank. Tho sleuths wero then "busy buying horses, ral es late, or something else and must get away," so nothing moru is heard of the Incident until a complaint is sworn to charging the defendant with selling whiskey. On Tuesday evening the sleuths the two star witnesses in tho cam. -cam to Logan to l-i present at tho trial. From evidence which has been delivered nt this otflco there was no occasion for them to seek any ono to purchase whiskey for them during this visit ns it Is said they brought It with them, and one at least bears thu report of having been gloriously "teed up." Tho case was tried and went to the Jury on Thursdny afternoon. after-noon. The attorneys fought It vigor ously nnd tho court room was filled with Interested listeners. In making his argument to the Jury Attorney (ieorge Q. Rich mado a strong plea to tho effect that If thoTe wero any criminals In tho case the slouths wero certnlnly In the llnio light, from the fact that they not only solicited defendant to get the whiskey, furnished furnish-ed the monej with which to pay for it, nnd helped to drink it.- but thoy played the toll of the tempter. "Thes-e so-callrd detectives," said Mr. Hich, "camo hero hunting Tot- crime and found none, and then In their eagerness eager-ness for crime they commit It themselves." them-selves." Tho Jury wero. evidently ol the same opinion from the fact that thoy were out about twontyy minutes before rendering a venllot of "Not Uullty." When the verdict was rendered the court room was fairly well filled, aud when the words, "Not guilty," fell from the lips of tho Judge, thero was a hearty demonstration of approval. Tho verdict was unexpected In the minds of somo of tho spectators, however, how-ever, from tho fact as stilted by one "thoro aro too many prohibitionists on the Jury to rendor a verdict 01 "Not guilty." The Jury, however, be thoy Btrong prohibitionists or otherwise, other-wise, are In tho first place men, and whllo desirous of prohibiting the Bale of liquor to tho lowest possible minimum, mini-mum, could not npptovo of such methods. Tho verdict will certainly meet with popular approvnl and that too, In strong prohibition territory, for whllo the people want tho sale prohibited, and will not shield nor sympathize with thoso who attempt to override tho law, yot thoy will not stamp with approval that which looked look-ed to tho Jury In this caso like one brand of criminal working with nn-other nn-other In nn attempt to bicak tho law, and convict ono on the evldonce of tho other In other words the Jury were firm to tho effect that "the pot cannot -call tho kettle black." |