The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-05-31
County Officers Capture Wagon,
Team and Booze and Arrest
Drivers Start Proceed
ingstC COnfiscate Outfit
TRANSPORTING MUST
STOP SAYS SIMPSON
Oscar on the Warpath Declares
He viii Play No FavOrites
and Lid viii Be Held
Down Tight

AS a result Of information received
by the county officials yesterday aft
erHoon, Ben Tucker and Sim Goslin
were arrested between Verden and
Chickasha BY tho sheriffs force, while
enroute with three barrels Of beer and
three gallons Of whisky, the meE pac.
ed IN iail and confiscation proceedings
entered against the team and wagon
and against the liquor.
Tharsday evening Oscar Simpson
went to Verden and personally investi-
gated the depot records in regard to
shipments OF whisky and beer. He
there found, among other shipments,
one barrel Of beer and one gallon OF
whisky billed to Ben Tucker and a
like shipment to Sim Goslln and John
Tucker He waited until yesterday,
when an attempt was made TO trans
port the stuff immediately the sher-
ifs force. John Lewis. John Phillips
and j Al Thompson, left Chlckasha IN
an auto and were waiting on the road
for the oneommg booze. The arrests
followed and The team, men and liquor
we're brought to Chickasha. The booze
vas stored IN the court house vault,
the team was placed IN a local stable
and The men we're confined in the
county bastile.
Il was discovered that the team and
wagon were the same that were cap
iured several weeks ago while en-
route from Wichita Falls to Chlcka.
sha With a wagon load Of whisky and
which we're driven at that time by Art
Thicker conflscation proceedings
were entered against the team and
wagon and liquor, while in the county
court complaints were filed against
Ben Tucker and Sim Goslln charging
unlawful transportation OF whisky
other arrests and court proceedings
viii follow out OF these proceedings.
That County Attorney Simpson in.
TENDS 20 pat the screws on good and
hard was evidenced By his statement
this morning concerning the transpor.
ialion 81 whisky from verden to Chick
asha. and il Is quite evident that his
intention is distinctly not to play fay.
oites. They an look alike to Oscar
The shipping Of whisky TO Verden
and transporting It 70 Chiokasha by
notorious booileggers must stop, said
Mr. Simpson. Men with regulations
and records for violating the prohibit
tory laws Of Oklahoma must learn that
they cannot bring liquor IN this way
and continue to violate the prohitltory
Law and think they can get away with
It. The sooner they learn it the bet.
ter they viii be of, because am 60
ing to stop il
7 intend to enforce the law, ire
speotlve OF shO the offenders may be
and neither threats nor intimidations
wiz deter me from those actions, but
The Offending parties win be prosecut'
ed to the limit The charges VIII not
stop at merely thar Of misdemeanor,
but criminal proceedings will be en-.
tered as Well as oonfiscatlon charges
against the liquor and conyeyances.
The I'D is on and it's on TO stay as
long as am county attorney
Tucker aud Coslin were taken to
the Grady county Jail yesterday after
noon, but later were released on bond,
This afternoon Oscar Simpson filed
complaints n justice 7 p Moore's
court against John Tucker, charging
4 felony, the case being the first case
Of It's kind filed in the county under
the new law, which makes the second
offense against the prohibitory liquor
law a felony
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