The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-01-11
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LOGAN TELLS STAR
Of PROTECTION BY
POLICE OFFICIALS

and the chief and asked them 10
moved where they wouldn't he In
my way while Was getting my
liquor shipments slowed away
And Serg;. Putnam's records or
his diary ought TO show whether
he was sent places phoned the
mayor and the chief 20 send him
! had Witnesses 10 many OF my tel
ephonic requests TO have Putnam
sent whore he couldn't interfere
with me.
The files % The Star viii show
that Putnam knew weeks and
weeks ago that he was being tipped
off and hampered by his superior
officers.
Does Not Blame mareeu
Il think these things viii satisfy
the public that couldn't have on.
Grated without molestation n the
police had not been kept away from
me by the men higher up.
when the county grand Jury
met. | was tipped off down In San
Francisco that II wouldn't amount
To anything didn't know then
that the recall forces had gone 10
the attorney general at Washing.
ton with an appeal TO get me via a
federal indictment felt that my
friends here had done good Job
With the county grand jury.
II. J. Marget. the expoliceman.
who got as much protection "a
did without Il costing him near
what II cost me. had nothing TO do
with the federal indictment OF my.
self and my brothers. have tried
10 make Il plain that the people
| helped scare the mayor into do
INK as ! wished had also kept on
after mo when | deserted them.
u was M against a man who Is
smarter than I. and who had the
Law on his side He IL. IN my mind.
the biggest man in town
II see now that was n sucker
to have rested so easy after 4
dropped out Of the fight against
GIN.
He was the king pin ! was after
to make my road easier. and the
minute | quit putting the screws 10
him, those screws were applied TO
me.
Thought Baker a Friend
Imagine my surprise and
disgust when, after my arrest In
San Francisco, phoned for
Eddie Baker. OF the Jesse Moore
Hunt Co., only to find that he
was In Seattle telling all he
knew TO the grand jury that had
indicted me.
ut didn't take me long 10 ruess
what had happened. And Il didn't
take me much longer after got
back 20 Seattle 10 find out that
there were n lot OF secret service
men here checking up on all angles
OF the case.
SO ] made tho best OF a bad
mess and told District Attorney
Allen and his assistants all knew.
| told them who To cail in and /
where the find tho men they
wanted.
Tried 70 Shield Brothers
! tried TO protect my brothers. /
who really acted all the way thru
on my advice. finally gave In 10
the demands Tor pleas of guilty /.
made by Allen after had talked TO
DR.. Matthews.
THE police made such n fuss
raiding the Billingsleys that the |
public knows little. IL anything,
about three or four other LIQUOR i'm. |
porters who have distributed even |
more booze here than ! did.
VIII Help Allen
I'm going TO help Allen make /
this case Ms complete and inclusive |
as possible. | -, thru with liquor |
and the business of selling II. ii
own some drug stores. some bank |
stock and some other property here. I
| can make good living out OF
these things
Seattle is my home. When this
trouble IL over expect To stay
here. n have done things that are
| have been assisted
by men who pretended TO what they |
weren't. and no one can say that
about me-"