Show BOOZE BOWE COPPED V BY COP GETS COPPED A ralla se sensation nation waft wan sprung in prie frie fri e last friday morning when it became known that the worth of liquor taken from john menta berry and jean chabre had digap pearled during the night it was placed by mayor decree wootton in the custody of marshal orson larsen but no nn specific instructions were as to just how it should be guarded larsen asserts thit that hi lit did nil all the mayor told him to and tho the mayor while mi admitting nitting that he should hare have thought to have told the tn irshal to place n guard over aver the prize mckage pick affe claims that the roar mar should have i that pro pre caution without specific instructions there were wre two ebira police av avill ill able for the night no trace his liis li is been found of the stil so far as the general public is aware was fined and chabre on pleading guilty before justice lee friday afternoon h frank hank ank coin was as discharged there have been sov eral thousand dollars worth of booze brought into tho the city lately from wyoming through the reservation and from salt lake so flagrant has become the bootlegging bootle akine that mayor wootton iV notton undertook a crusade with the aid of special officers without the advice or co of the council it t now looks ilka hka the council would not wn in on the mayors tl vity search warrants were issued last thursday for a number of places the th searching of some of which would have lave caused as big a surprise as the stealing of the find of the day ac cording to Menta terry he and chabre 1 were ere tipped off by an appointive city official and it was while they were moving the stuff that a woman nearby saw it and informed the officials it waa was nabbed and now john someone of double crossing him mayor wootton 0 t commissioner bryner about put ting the booze in the jail at the courthouse but mr bryner has no authority to go over the bead head of the sheriff in matters pertaining to the handling of the jail 1 and ho lib did not rint assume authority but left it to the mayor to see sheriff collingham Colling bam liam charges of incompetency graft craft and general bungling have been made again against almost everyone connected with the affair but real court ivi i vi dence is lacking mayor wootton asserts that he is going to play his bard hard out if be he has to play it alone in driving out the bootlegging which ia is robbing the families of many workmen of food and clothing he ile has accumulated a inaho of evidence which he be says he lit will follow to the end |