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Show Y01G DETECTIVES IN LIQUOR CASE GOT 'COLS FEET' Mrs. Tiny Thompson, indicted for selling liquor without a license in her Twenty-fifth street rooming house, is on trial before District Judge Alfred W Agee and a jury. W. F. Garner of Malad testified that he and his co-worker, M. A. Miller of Logan, came to Ogden in search of detective work; that they tendered their services to Chief of Police Browning and were instructed by Chief Browning and Sergeant Blackburn Black-burn to go to Mrs. Thompson's rooming room-ing house the night of February 27 and see -whether they could buy beer. Young Garner said they bought two bottles at $1 each. They had been instructed, he said, to explore the situation sit-uation the first night and to have things fixed the following night, when the officers would come in and make the arrests. He admitted that ho and his partner got "cold feet" and left town the next day without attempting to carry out their orders; that they didn't even say good-by to the police and received nothing' for their labors Cross examined by Attorney George Halverson, Garner finally was forced to admit that both he and Miller were in jail three days at Salt Lake before be-fore coming here to do detective work charged with trying to hold up women in a rooming house for money. He said they were acquitted, but also ad mitted that the Salt Lake women whom they wero "investigating" outwitted out-witted himself and pal. For example, he gave a woman 10 to buy some beer. She didn't buy the beer and when he "roared" for his money back she gave back $5, wnereupon he and his comrade raised a howl to the police po-lice and were themselves thrown into Jail. Garner said the woman took his ?5 and "beat it." Attorney Halverson asked Garner what he and Miller did with the two bottles of beer purchased from Mrs Thompson. He said they drank it. "You mean to say you drank up your evidence?" asked Halverson. "Yes, sir," he replied. A broad smile lightened up the court room. In qualifying the jury District Attorney At-torney Dobbs asked the jurors whether wheth-er they would accept "stool pigeon" evidence. Attorney James N. Kimball objected that the question was improper. impro-per. Judge Agee himself then framed the question in what he considered legal le-gal form. "With all respect to this court," quietly qui-etly said Mr. Kimball, "I still object, because that question is legally inadmissible. inad-missible. The supremo court has held," etc. Judge Agee pondered a few moments mo-ments and replied: "Objection sustained sus-tained " which evoked another gloom-chasing gloom-chasing smile The other young detective, Mlllpr, will testify tomorrow morning. Judge Agee forbade Garner to talk with his co-worker concerning the case |