Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-05-26
LIQUOR CASES
ARE HEARD
r. Mcpherson and B. H. Walker Found
Guilty Of Violation Of Prohibition
Law By District Court Juries
CONFLICTING EVIDENCE IS GIVEN
Cou. thouse Crowed at All Sessions By
Interested Spectators

Mcpherson charged with having un-
lawful possession of intoxicating Ii
ouor, was heard in the district court
Monday and Tuesday, verdict OF
guilty being returned by the jury
Tuesday afternoon. Judge Dunn SEN
fenced Mcpherson to As days in the
county Jail and to pay fine OF
$4,000.
Court convened at l O'Clock Mon
day afternoon. At this time 5. T.
Henry. attorney for the defendant
asked for a new venire of jurymen on
the grounds that the venire had been
selected by Sheriff Worley who had
also sworn to the complaint against
Mcpherson. Judge Dunn granted the
defendants motion and City Marshal
Sawyer was sworn in and instructed
to secure a new venire of 20. The
case was resumed at o'clock Mon
day evening.
Witnesses for the state testified
that on March 29th Mr. Mcpherson
presented a check for and received
a trunk at the Great Northern depot
which had been shipped from Libby,
Mont. Deputy Sheriff Mcmahon tes-
titled to having opened the trunk at
McPherson's warehouse and having
found in it a quantity of intoxicating
liquor. Mcpherson swore he did not
know that the trunk contained liquor
and said that he did not know the
name of the person who gave him
the check. The person who gave
him the check, he said, told him to
go and get the trunk and keep it
for him until it was called for.
The case of the state against B. H.
Walker, charged with unlawfully
transporting liquor into this state,
was tried Immediately following the
Mcpherson case. The case went to
the jury at HOO o'clock Wednesday
morning and a verdict of guilty was
returned. Walker was sentenced at
two o'clock Wednesday to serve go
days in the county Jail and pay a
fine of $780,
c. H. leighton, prosecuting attor-
ney of Boundary couny and N. d
Wernette, prosecuting attorney OF
Kootenci county, conducted the
the case for the state. The defend
ant was represented by S. E. Henry
The evidence introduced by the state
was secured through the efforts OF
Sheriff Morley, Deputy Mcmahon and
Prosecuting Attorney leighton.
On March goth a trunk was re-
ceived at the local Great Northern
depot and delivered to R. Mcpherson
a local drayman who held the CHECK
for it. The trunk was shipped from
Libby, Mont, and was found to con
tain a quantity of whiskey, clare
and beer. B. H. Walker was charged
with shipping this trunk of liquor
from Libby to Bonners Ferry.
o. R. Rue, operator for the Grea
Northern railway company at Libby
Mont, was the star witness for tn,
state. He testified to having seer
Walker in Libby on March 2Sth be
tween two and three o'clock in tn
afternoon. He again saw him be
tween IL and 11:15 o'clock at nigh
when he said Walker came to tn
ticket window and laid down none,
to pay for a ticket to Bonners Ferry
Witness said that he was then OF
shift and preparing to turn the mo
on duty and he did not sell a tickle
to Walker. Rue testified that b
checked a trunk for Walker an
told that the number of the chez
was 95405. He identified the trun
in which the liquor had been foun
as the one he had checked at LIB
for Mr.. Walker.
A coat which was found in tn
trunk was shown as evidence. ]. v
Reid was placed on the stand an
told of having sold a suit to B.
Walker similar to the coat. Witnes
testified that the defendant ha
talked with him about the coat an
had said that the coat was not hi
or if it had been his he had give
it away.
Sheriff Worley testified that he ha
had a conversation with Walker o
April 10th and that Walker had sal
that II he was found guilty he woul
squeel on others.