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Show HAD 11 PINTS IN HIS SUIT CISE WHEN HE . MET POLICE Hooper Phillips, colored, was fined ?150 with tho alternative of spondlng 90 days In tho city Jail, whon ho appeared ap-peared beforo Judge George S. Barker of the municipal court this morning, on a chargo of having liquor unlawfully unlaw-fully in his possession. Hooper was a pure "find" to the police po-lice department, thero being no ad-vanco ad-vanco Information that ho was headed this way with a load of contraband. Ho walked into the arms of the police Sunday afternoon, as ho was sauntering saunter-ing along on Wall avenue, near Twenty Twen-ty -Hlxth street, loaded down with a suit case in which wero twenty-two pint bottles of whiskey wrapped in an assortment of newspapers among which, nostllng snugly In Its natural element, was a morning paper and some women's ragged clothes. Hooper was crossing tho Intersection Intersec-tion of Wall avenue and Twenty-sixth stroot, as Chief of Police Browning and Detective A. B. Jensen passed that way In tho police auto. He looked suspicious to them, as they romom-berod romom-berod that ho had been before tho court early In January and had beon sentenced to 30 days in the county jail' for being drunk. Thoy stopped the car and Detective Jonsen got out to investigate. in-vestigate. As ho stopped up to Hooper Hoop-er and asked what he had in the wicker wick-er suit case tho colored man roplled, "O, nothln' much." Thereupon Hooper Hoop-er set tho case down on tho sidewalk, looked at tho second button on the detectlvo's vest until great beads of perspiration ran down his face and then walked without another word to the police auto and climbed Into tho scat. In pollco court this morning Hooper slated that he had recently boon working work-ing in Evnnston as an engine wiper at the round house and was coming to Ogden to have a good time. He denied de-nied that he intended to engago in bootlegging, but admitted that ho had avoided tho ordinary method of travel by passenger car and had come to Ogden Og-den on a freight train. Assistant City Attorney David L. Stlno asked Hooper what he intended to do with tho liquor and he replied that ho intended to drink it and havo a good time. oo |