Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-05-17
.iiGGGGEEIIIH!GG FOR A
QUICK Vanishing
NEW CONVEYING ORDINANCE
WILL HELP OUT SOME,
The JAIL A Hated THING
Sentences Imposed by Municipal
Court Are Looked TO Re Upheld
IN the County Court,

one Of these days the booueggers
Of Tulsa are not going to be laugh
ing behind their hands and crack
ing jokes among themselves about the
officers, according to Chauncey A,
Houston, Judge of the municipal
court, Judge Houston Is of the opiu-
ion that that day is going to come
mighty quick. The police depart
ment has another ordinance under
which the bootloggers can be stuck,
the conveying ordinance, and that
will help some.
Already some Of the bootleggers
are beginning 10 feel the real power
of the law. While awaiting for his
bond, Il young man, an alleged boot
logger, whose name was given as
Foster wept bitterly as he descended
the steps into the bastile Foster was
kept locked up for some time, as
there was a delay in getting his bond
fixed up, While langushing in the
city bastile the bootlegger had a
chance to picture to himself the hor
rors Of an imprisonment of ninety
days, the sentence which Is being i'm
posed on the convicted bootleggers.
Under city Ordinances Nos. 756
and S37, It is good for a jail sentence
and a fine to be convicted of boot
Logging Nearly a score and a half
Of bootleggers have been convicted
under Ordinance No. 1855 alone. Each
who has been convicted has straight
way appealed his case to the county
court.
The question being raised on all
sides Will the sentences imposed on
these bootleggers In the municipal
court be upheld by the county bench
Judge Houston Is Of the opinion that
the greater majority OF the bootleg
gers convicted in the city court Will
be stuck In the county court He an
ticipates that the city win have trou-
Bile in upholding the municipal court
In the cases which were at first APP
pealed under Ordinance No. 1856
from the fact that there will be trou-
BILE in finding the witnesses at the
time Of trial. In these earlier cases
which were appealed to the county
court, many of the witnesses who
were parties to the conviction, were
employees Of the civic League, or wit
nesses found by that body. 1t APP
pears that the bootlegging element
has secured control of these wit
nesses. At least the principal ones
have left the city and their where
"a 70 l. In,
the city win find 1t difficult to secure
conviction in the county court,
But the later cases which were APP
pealed will make an entirely different
story The witnesses in all of these
cases are the police officers or some
one whom the city can absolutely
rely on to be at the trials.
In the event that the county court
finds these alleged bootlcggers guilty
there will be no appeal except in
questions Of law. The evidence as
taken by the county court will be
final The Supreme Court of the
State Is qualified to render opinions
on questions of law. II IS the opinion
OF Mayor Martin, Police Judge Hous-
ton, city Attorney Ramsey and 9TH
ers who are fighting the bootleggers
that the city laws will stick even in
the highest court of the state.
In consequence II is said that a lot
of buildings will be without owners
o rhave sorry owners, when the pro-
posed campaign which is to be in
itiated at once, gets under headway
The city will strengthen It's present
ordinances and will make II a heavy
penalty on the owners OF the build
ings wherein booze is sold upon con-
viction.
Judge Houston has some set views
Of the enforcement of the
liquor laws. He states that the laws
may not be right. That personally
he is not too strongly in favor of
them, but he declares that all laws
look alike to him, and as long as they
exist he Is going TO enforce them to
the letter. and that inasmuch as the
people Of oklahoma have twice vot-
ed for prohibition, evidently prohl-
bition is wanted.
at isn't going to be so funny when
the bootleggers feel themselves Slip
ping is the way Judge Houston
sums things up.