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Show Startling Disclosure Made in the Potter Case "Diamond Tooth Mae" Is the Mysterious Woman Wo-man and Detective Wardlaw, Heavily Disguised, Dis-guised, Is the "Man in the Case" Jury Returns Re-turns Verdict of Not Guilty Within Twenty Minutes. A great BUrpriso was disclosed in tho case of the city against Mra. Potter, Pot-ter, charged with selling liquor without with-out a license in the Glen hotel, in the municipal court yesterday, when evidence evi-dence was given showing that "Diamond "Dia-mond Tooth Mae" "was a member of the detective force of Ogden under the new administration, and that this same former member of the "alley" Tvas the mysterious woniau who has figured so prominently In tho arrest of Mrs. Totter It was also shown that Goorgo Wardlaw of the city detective force, with a heavy disguise, hccompanicd TMamond Tooth Mae" to tho Glen hotel on the evening that the beer is alleged to hac been purchased. Tho jury returned re-turned a verdict of not guilty. Chief of Police Norton was asked last night by a representative of this paper if "Diamond T,ooth Mae," was regularly an employe of the city and a member of tho detectlvo force, and ho indignantly resented re-sented tho Imputation. But tho testimony brought out in the case shows that "Diamond Tooth Mae' Is one of the city's sleuths, and it Is oven hinted that she is the mysterious mys-terious "John T. Bishop." Chief Suggested Evasion. Mrs. Potter in court openly charged Chief of Police Norton with suggesting to her a means of evasion of tho penalty of the law for the offense with which she had been charged When the case was called in the municipal court before Judge W. H. Rqodor, Jr., the city .attorney asked that the case be continued, hut this was resisted by the defendant's attorney, attor-ney, and the caso was called for tiial at 2 p. m. The following jury was empaneled- William Burton, J S. Carver, Fred M. Nye and Hyrum Pin-gree. Pin-gree. After the examination of the jury, Charles PIncock, the arresting officer, was called to the stand. At this point the attorney for the defense de-fense said that he wished to haYo placed in the record his objection to tho action on the ground that the chaige of selling liquor did not constitute con-stitute an offense under the city ordinance. ordi-nance. Plncock's Testimony. PIncock testified that on the nght of March 11, he, in company with Detective Robert Chambers, followed Detective Wardlaw and Mao West to the Glen hotel on Hudson avonue. He said ho went around to the back and got up on the porch where he could look in at the window whero Wardlaw and tho West woman were when he reached the porch. Ward-law Ward-law oponed the window so that he would bo ablo to hoar. Presently, ho said, the West woman returned, followed fol-lowed by Mrs. Potter carrying two bottles of beer. Wardlaw, he said, was disguised In a false mustache, and had a muffler around his neck and a cap drawn well down over his face. As Mrs Potter placed the beer on the table, Pincock said Wardlaw throw a dollar down, remarking that he would pay for the beer. At this point Chambers came up from down stairs and PIncock entered from the porch, and all hands wero taken Into ' custody. At this time a great bluster blus-ter was made by PIncock and Chambers Cham-bers about arresting Wardlaw and the West woman, the latter, however, during the "excitement," was allowed ' to escape, while Pincock and Cham- bers made a great bluff of searching . Wardlaw for a gun. Chambers' tes- j timony did not differ from Plncock's in any essential particular. I Wardlaw testified that he had. planned tho coup and conceived the idea of securing evidence against the Illicit sale of liquor through tho West woman, and sent her to the Glen hotel on the Friday and Saturday preceding pre-ceding tho raid in order that she might be able to find out whether beer could bo bought tnere. ''Diamond Tooth Mae" on Stand. Tho West woman was then called, and when nhe took the stand the mysterious mys-terious Avoman In tho case was at last revealed in the person of Mae Wost, who has for years been a well-known character in Ogden's rod light district, and Is bettor known as "Diamond ' Tooth Mae." She said that she came to Ogden from Denver, Colo., about eight years ago, and was for seven years an lnmnto of Electric alley. When asked what hor occupation was at present, she said she was doing , sewing and housework, and had been out of the allev for nearly a year. j On the Sth and 0th of March, she said, she went to the Glen hotel, and each time engaged a room, for which she paid, and on both occasions asked ' Mrs. Potter if she could buy some- I thing to drink, to which, she said, ' Mrs Potter replied that she could ' get cither beer or whisky. On Mon- I day night aho met Wardlaw in front ' of tho police station and proceeded with him to tho Glen hotel, where she had alroady cnguged a room, and i asked for a drink to bo served In the room. Mrs. Potter, she said, then brought two bottles of beer, for which Wardlaw paid one dollar. Tho other two officers, Pincock and Chambers, came In at this tlmo and placed Mrs, Potter under arresL During the testimony two bottles of beer wore introduced as ovldence, J and tho attorney for the defense undertook un-dertook to establish the fact that tho officers wore unable to say whether or npt tho contents of the two bottles I were really boor. One bottle was finally final-ly openod and a glass given to Ward- I law to test, hut tho dofenso held that Wardlaw was no expert on beer or near been Tho Jury then offered to pass on it, hut tills wns not allowed, and so tho beer wns recorked and set aside upon Wardlaw's say so that it i was really boer. ! Witnesses Sustain Mrs. Potter. During tho cross-examination of the West womnn tho attorney for tho defonse undertook to break down her testimony and tangle up her story, but was unablo to "do so. - One of tho women roomcrn bf 'the'1 Glon was then called for' tho' 'defense"' and told an entirely dlfferents'tory J I about tho affair than hhd thus'' far been tiroughi to light On Monday night, March U, sho said she was staying frith Mrs. Potter, when tho Wost woman came to the hotel about S o'clock m the evening with a parcel par-cel which she said was beer, and wanted It put on ice, saying that she would return for it later in the evening. even-ing. She said that Miss West camo hack later in company with another man, and after going to hor room with him came to Mrs. Potter's apartments apart-ments and askod for her beer, and Insisted that Mrs. Potter bring it to her room, with two glasses. Further than this, sho said, sho saw nothing. Two witnesses, G. E. Ward and R "Hyde, were then placed on the stand. They testified that they arrlvdd In Ogden on the morning of March 11, and wore stopping at the Glen hotel. Tliey said further that In the evening about 8 o'clock a woman, whom they wero unablo to recognize as the West woman, came to the hotel and left a package, but further than this they were unable to say, as thoy saw nothing of the officers and tho fur-t fur-t T mn- Mrs. Potter, when placed on the su.., ua.ucii u about tho same iacts as bud been testified to by a former witness, about the West woman wom-an bringing tho beer to the house early in the evening and asking that it bo put on ice for her. Later on, she said, Miss West asked her to bring the beer into her room, and when she did so a dollar was given her, which she understood was for the room rent, and with that understanding under-standing took the dollar. Burlesque of the Detectives. She told of the burlesque pulled off by the officers when thej searched Wardlaw for a gun, and how Chambers, Cham-bers, when the West woman got away, called out to Pincock, "What in tho h 1 did you lot the woman go for9" She said further that the officers told her to bo In police court next morning, morn-ing, and when sho went over to see the chief of police as directed ho told her he knew nothing of the case, but asked her to come back next day. one uiu so, and on tins occasion saiu Chief Norton called In the detectives who had been present on the night of the "coup," and they all had a talk together. Chief Norton, she said, told her that, though ho did not want to advise her, he would suggest that she put up bond, which, sho said, ho intimated, could be forfeited and the case settled In a friendly way without going Into court. He tried to impress im-press upon her, he said, the fact that he had a dead sure case, In which there would be ,no doubt of a conviction. convic-tion. Mrs. Potter said she told him she had already engaged counsel and would leave tho matter in his hands. The attorney for the defense, in closing the case for that side, made an impassioned plea to tho jury, In which he ridiculed tho methods of tho police department, which he said partook par-took of the Diamond Dick variety of literature. It was an insult, he said, to both Mrs. Potter and to the citizens citi-zens of Ogden to bring a woman of . the underworld to work In tho ranks of the police force, and roflectcd on tho ability and Intelligence of that department when they found it necessary nec-essary to stoop to such means In order or-der to secure a conviction or work up I a case. j The case went to the Jury at 6-10 and before 6.30 they returned a ver-I ver-I diet of not guilty. |