Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-25
LIQUOR RUNNERS
GET $40 A TRIP
That's the Bait That Tempted
Miami Soda Jerker Into
Forbidden Paths.
MADE TWO TRIPS-CAUGHT
Introducers Seek "Neat, Gen.
tlemanly Appearing Young
Men Above Suspicion.

What's the use OF working for wages
when you can make $170 week driv-
ing liquor car into oklahoma?
That's the question that was put up
to Orie l.. West young soda fount
jeIker" of Miami, who came to 1uisa
a year ago to "get his start" and
carve out his living from the many
opportunities he had heard greeted
the young man in the oil capital
The temptation was too great for
West-and he fell. He was induced
to join Casey" Jones and wild BIZ
Mayfield's expedition of liquor rum
ners.
Pay Promptly.
Twice ne got across the line and
completed his trip safely. 1t was easy
money"-$T0 trip and he MADE two
trips the first week. And he got his
money promptly. one thing that may
apparently be said for the ntroducers.
they pay on the spot: they don't prom
Use to settle tomorrow"
SO the young soda jerker, with ms
pockets stuffed with the tainted"
money, went back home to visit his
parents In his enthusiasm over his
easy prosperity he confided his new
activities to his mother and like all
good mothers always do, Vests moth
er at once begged him to quit. HUI
inflated at her sons occupation, she
warned him with tear-dimmed eyes
that he could not escape the officers
Of the law. Besides, 1t was a Grim
inal life and she didn't want Orie to
become a criminal.
But he was confident he was smart
er than all the deputy marshals and
special enforcement officers and the
dozens of others who form the net
work Of Uncle Sans secret service
against the liquor traffic in Oklahoma.
lie was sure Casey" Jones and "Dill'
Mayfied. and the other boys" would
continue to elude the koen-eyed
sleuths OF the law-notwithstandin
Jones is under bond now in eight or
ten liquor cases.
West Comes West.
So West came back to Tulsa from
Miami to resume his "get-rich-quick"
occupation.
his very next trip, he was caught
caught 'red-handed," as he was
bringing two automobiles loaded with
liquor into Tulsa. And Casey" and
Bill and another OF their crowd
were with him. Special Officer 4.
II. !rents and number OF deputies
snagged the quartet in Rogers county
few days ago.
Yesterday young West was in the
United States commissioner court
executing his bond. His father,
Charles \. West. who is engaged in
the mining business at Miami, was
with him. Bond was fixed at $1,000
and Mrs Edna Crumley OF this city
became his surety and he was re-
leased
West is a neat, gentlem2nly ap-
pearing young chap of abopt 20 and
carries n mark of refinement that
suggests that he is from good fam
ly--as he is. His father is a re-
spected business man of Miami and
did not hide the EN- mbarrassment and
humiliation he felt in the commits
sioner's court as he assisted in get
ting his son released from Jail.
Afraid of Risk.
That's the way young West got his
job as a liquor runner. He has n
good appearance. And that is the
kind of young men the liquor intro
ducers seek, so they will not arouse
suspicion. Known to the officers
themselves for their law violations,
tnev are afraid to risk the hazard
they induce others to assume.
so they approached West-and he
fell" according to his story. The
seductive pay was dangled before his
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