Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-03-09 | Page 9 | Alleged Liquor Ring Uncovered

ALLEGED LIQUOR RING UNCOVERED Sheriff Reports Arrest of Samuel Sam-uel Underwood and Eugene Farr In the arrest yesterday Ny members of tho sheriffs department of Samuel Underwood. 3 1, and Eugeno Farr. 19, It Is believed by the officers that n Whisky ring which has been operating operat-ing bore for some time has been broken. brok-en. The two men were arrested by Pep-uWe Pep-uWe 1 1. H Mohlman and Charles Pln-coek Pln-coek whib theV were In the alleged act of delivering liquor to a house on Twenty-Second str, et. A full gallon and a pint of "moonshine" whisky Is being held as evidence- Underwood and Fnrr are said f"1 have been carrying the liquor between H them In a larire paper sack Inves"'" tic ulon of tho men has led the offl-cers offl-cers to believe that they have been carrying on liquor traffic hero for scv- J oral weeks. I'nderwood gave his oc-cuuatlon oc-cuuatlon as a aleemaa and Farr said H ihe was a laborer. Both men aye be- H tnir held In the county Jail. H on stiff rimes Farr and Underwood, appeared be-fore be-fore City Judge I. J. Holther this H morning. Farr ante red a plea of guilty. guil-ty. vbii- Underwood pl .ided not gull- T.irr Bald ln court that he and In-derwood In-derwood were In the act of delivering H loll and a pint of whisky when the arrest took place. Following admissions by Farr that H ihe been buying liquor at 16 per gal-llon gal-llon and selling it at $30 per gallon JJudg Holther Imposed a sentence of H ($250 fine or 180 davs In Jail. Underwood asserted that he had no H knowledge as to the contents of the H : jug and the pint flash H "It might have been water for all Il know" he nftld He testified that I he expected no remuneration from the transaction, but thought that he might have gotten a drink out of It- . H Underwood was Njnd guilty and was sentenced to J1F.0 fine or 60 days H In lail. it asked permission to icrve the sentence in the city jail.