The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-01-23
FULL FACTS OF
The BOOZE
BURGLARY
SHERIFF KENDALL TAKES THE
PUBLIC FULLY INTO HIS
CONFIDENCE.
How lim Brown LiquIdated the
Liquids

Just Entering without Breaking;
But the Pen. For Hisn All the
Same.
Speaking of Leaks it is only fair |
to the administration of the office OF |
Sheriff of this county to say that all
that was published last week with re-
gard TO the abstraction of booze from
Sheriff Kendall's cOnfiscation store
room, was based upon "leakage and |
not upon any information furnished /
by those who alone knew the facts |
This was not because of any inten- |
tion to deceive the public. or to hide |
behind veil of secrecy. Sheriff Ken
dali says he quite realizes that the
public is entitled to full knowledge
with regard to its official servants.
and he never attempted to withhold
1t, except insofar as, at any given time,
it might obstruct or embarass the
course of justice. In the present case,
silence was observed for a few days
as conducive to the better and fuller
uncOvering of the offender or Offend
ers. This has been accomplished, and
the facts hereinafter fully set forth
show expert wOrk-a performance dis
playing ingenuity, care and skill quite
sufficient to qualify for bank rob-
berry instead of stealing a few quarts
of squirrel whiskey.
TbQ west end of the court house
basement is divided into two large
rooms. separated by a hall. To the
north is the firing and coal room, and
to the south a general storage room,
| IA rrrhf fuI, fa. 81 To- r.
serve cOal-sOmething a heap of peo-
pie would like to have these daysi The
elevator shaft projects itself into this
room, and a doorway through the wall
of this shaft and from the main hall.
constitute the only entrances. From
this shaft a wall is extended to in
, close a small room in the northeast
(as points of the compass seem to go
in Twin Falls) corner of the large
room Here the sheriff keeps all i'm
5 portant court exhibits of any size, and
also all liquors taken under the pro-
: hibitory law. To this room there is
= a single, dOuble-strength door, guard
ed by fine Yale lock, to which the
2 sheriff alone carries a key And
, the fine Italian hand" of our burglar
e izing crook is shown in the fact that
- no force" was used, and that at any
and all times during the two or three
/ weeks his performance continued. ex-
i cept when he was actually present anC
I performing, the door, lock, and every
= thing else. not only appeared normal
o upon examination, but actually was
S just as it had been left
), The chap who cast himself for tn,
n heavy "vilyun" in this little dram;
;. was arrested something over thre,
. months ago for bootlegging and gav'
d his name as James Brown With n,
It little experience in "tricks that ar,
n dark and ways that are vain" Brothe
Brown still bore upon his face a meel
e and patient look that served to sc
IS cure his selection, under the direc
) provisions of the law, as a "trusty'
l. and his detail to save money for TIL
county by assisting the janitOr in fir
n inc, sweeping, shovelling snow an
= other jobs about the building. This
then, was his modus operandi upo
the booze proposition:
The large storeroom was kept locke
N by a paddock on the hall door and
" hasp inside fastening on the door int
the bottom of the elevator shaft
e cell-like place filled with the liftin
ii power and machinery. But when ser
in this store-room for coal or other
wise Mr. Trusty would lift the has
Dt on the shaft door and then. at hi
r, leisure, crawl through the shaft an
= enter the storeroom. Confronting tt
0, booze room door, without witnesse
I'd he found it possible to insert SON
r slender flat instrument between tn
i door and the jamb and, pressing
against the beveled side of the sprin
~ bolt of the Yale lock, to work it bac
o. into the lock and open the door. Thel
y, after his requisition had been honol
le cd, he would shut the self-locking doc
e. and leave everything precisely as
c. found it to external observation
d. The rest was easy-save that infini
n, care must have been taken to excl
a no suspicion, unless among otht
lie prisoners, who were doubtless easi
of notified. The transfer and sale W;
"a, most difficult, and may or may NJ
D., have been assisted by an outside col
an federate. as he himself was occasion
10 ally sent down town on errands
in cache for a few bottles at a time W.
'ir made in the front of an unused boile
easy of access as opportunity for ira
D. fic offered
If Sheriff Kendall says none of
hit subordinates are in any degree
h blame in the matter. Indeed, it is d1
Is ficult to find a place to lodge even
h charge of careiessness.
James Brown proved himself a b'