The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-03-17


| which he handed over to Or.
NJ. a. Matthews 10 help clean
| up the town" eventually went 10
seret. Putnam, TO be used IN
going after bootleagers.
Logan has already testified he
gave Matthews the 81 600 to be used
in getting evidence as 10 the extent
OF vice, gambling and liquor law
violations.
When 4. s. Prosecutor Reames
tried to get Putnam to testify he
got money from MatthewR TO help
carry on tho work of the dry squad.
late Friday. the defense attorneys
objected. and judge Neteror aus.
tanned their objection. So Putnam
did not answer.
Important Testimony
The booze graft case Friday after
noon was marked by important ties.
timony. W H. barr. yardmastor
for the OW railway. said Logan
Billingaley said no could get the
/ dry squad out OF the way" for
short time n he wanted to. Putnam
testified Chief Rockingham told him
! 60 lay of" tho Eyres Transfer
+ Company. Fred Bllllngsloy. IN cross.
examination. admitted he had per.
jurrd himself on the witness stand
M Judge Gordon'H court last April.
and Logan said that Attorney
( George Nanderycer had told him
I"Gill had a chance once TO get 800.
600 on a franchise deal. and had
been kicking himself ever since for
not taking IT,"
Fred perIured himself
"ycs--I perIured myself-on the
advice OF my attorney"
THIS tcrsc admission from Fred
Billlngsley. government witness IN
tho booze graft case. marked the
most telling attack OF counHeis for
tho defense when they suddenly 70
called him 10 tho stand Friday after.
noon.
! II opened fierce and partially
successful attack. from a new angle.
+ To dlscredit the man who has
sworn he paid bride money 20 Chief
Buckingham. and bought protection
from city detectives for illicit liquor
traffic.
Attorneys Walter Fulton and VII.
mon Tucker had tried time and time
again TO mako tn, confessed boot.
leggers admit they had sworn false
~ under oath on other occasions.
Blame. ., on vsnderveer
But the noachaiant admission Fri.
day afternoon. wrung from Fred
after u stubborn croaHcxaulnation
was tho first time that they had
clearly scored on this point.
/ Fred admitted having testified IN
case before Judge Gordon last
April that he had made bona fIde
transfer OF hls Stewart st. drug
store.
hut II was on tho advice OF
I George Vandcryecr." he explained.
/ Attorney Walter Fulton. for
Mayor Gil. established tho fact. IN
cross. examination OF Logan BIZ.
! Kingsley. that he had employed n
man named Carl May In San Fran
cisco. and had tried TO get him 10
leave Seattle and go 10 San Fran.
cIco and inform tho government
about tho Jesse Moore Hunt Co. q
violations. Logan would not admit
that he had told May the story OF
bribing Mayor GIN vas n frame
up" 10 get even with the city's chief
executive.
Says Vanderveer Accused GIL
But Logan sprung sensation
when he declared that Attorney
Vanderveer had told him that
Mayor GIN once had a chance TO
make 100000 on a railway fran.
chise matter. and had been kicking
himself ever since that he didn't
take it,
This was tho reply Logan made
when Tucker asked him II Wander.
veer hadn't declared that Il was i'm.
possible to give I'll Gill bride q"
Another startling bit OF testl.
mony came from W. ". Barr. yard.
master for the OW.. who said
Logan came 20 his house one night.
Told Agent Of Protection
lie asked me " would tele-
phone him 40 minutes before his
liquor shipments arrived" Barr do
clared. "and said he could get tho
dry squad sent To tho other end of
town. but he couldn't hold EN-
there. I told him wouldn't get
mixed up In any crooked work"
Long statements. evidently made
by Otto May. who worked for Logan
in San Francisco. came hero and
involved himself in the federal in.
yestigation. were put up 10 Logan
and Fred for confirmation by Attor.
ncy Tucker.
They denied the vital statements
tending to show they had told May
they were "lobbing GIL" but con.
firmed other portions OF the state.
ments.
After Logan admitted having n
conversation with May to talk over
n play Ito get even with the Jesse
Moore Hunt company" Attorney
Tucker asked: did you not say to
May. IT'S great world for
framing and did not May say. You
never gave Gil $4,000. and you
know IT."
NO" Logan said. II wouldn't
say that"
Didn't MAY say, 7 won't let you
step over III CHS body to lib
erty'?"
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