The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-17
INVESTIGATION OF
 BOOZE IN SEATTLE
 LEADING TO ARRESTS
Judge Tallman Charges the Grand Jury With What is Expected Of it in the Cases to
 Be Tried

fdlS anu other ClllAeHS III NOh"N|
 tion with "wet goods which d1sap
 peared from Judge Aliens court
 room, and other preliminar1es, arc
 given in a recent copy of the Seatti' Times as follows:
 Searching investigation into re
 ports that peace officers of the coun
 ty and city have themselves soie
 and disposed of liquor seizures con
 trary to law was ordered to day II
 instructions given to the King Coun
 ty Grand Jury, now in session, D!
 Presiding Judge Boyd J. Tallman II the Superior Court. The court alse directed inquiry into reports tha' large quantities of liquor are Delns shipped into the county and sole here.
 Judge Tallman further directed the Grand Jury to make its investl'
 cation so thorough that there VII be no necessity to call next Novem' Der the regular session of that body In response to query rom the Court, Foreman Dana w. Brown sald that the jury had no indictments to return at this time.
 Prosecuting Attorney Fred c. l Brown said this extra duty put upon | the Grand Jury will entail worR that will occupy from two to three weeks additional time.
 For some time past" Judge Tall man said to the jury, there have been published in the newspapers reports to the effect that intoxicat- ing liquors ,have been shipped into this county in large quantities, con trary to law, and it is also reported that such liquor has been and is being sold, more or less openly, ID violation of the statutes of this State.
 It is also reported that peace or ficers of King County and Of the | City of Seattle, after seizing intoXl- eating liuuors in so-called raids have sold and disposed of the same con trary to law.
 "It is your duty as a Grand Jury | to lnQu1Te luIO dll tilCoO oiiN9SN ' lations of the law
 At the conclusion of his instruc- tions Judge Tallman handed Fore man Brown large envelope which | he said "contained data concernlne matters deserving of your attention and which I have been requested I 70 give to you.
 Courthouse Case Ended The shifting of the inquiry into the alleged wholesale liquor traffic and the charges that city and coun- ty officers of the peace were selling the product of their raids was in terpreted at the courthouse as indi- eating that the Grand Jury had vir- tually completed its investigation oi the alleged unauthorized distribu- , tion of a large quantity of whiskey ordered destroyed on June by Su- perior Judge Clay Allen. The Grand Jury was sworn on June 16 and since that time. Prosecuting Attorney Brown said today, had devoted its entire time to matters pertaining to the happenings on the night oi Tune 4, when it was reported tf Judge Allen whiskey was taken by the sackful from the courthouse tc automobiles, taxicabs, and even the wagon of an undertaking estab- lishment.
 Judge Tallman was notified late yesterday afternoon that the Grand Jury would wait upon him at II o'clock this morning in pursuance to the statement contained in his first charge to, the jury that further instructions would be given after the whiskey episode had been in vestigated.
 Before he read his supplemental charge this morning Judge Tallman asked if the Grand Jury was ready to submit a report of any kind. No, not now, Judge" answered Foreman Brown"
 When the jury returned to its room Sheriff John Stringer was again called before it. The first witness this morning was Deputy Sheriff Fred A. Brown and he re maiped more tha nan hour in the | room while his chief occupied 8 bench in the hall Police Judge John F. Gordon ano | his clerks were before the Grand Jury yesterday afternoon and sub mitted for inspection the criminal | docket pertaining to whiskey seiz' ures. They were followed by Sher- if Stringer, who remained an hour
 Judge Tallman's instructions giv- en today to the special grand jur! 1 follow:
 In addition to, and by you to b' considered with, the instructions have hereinbefore given you, l vii
 now instruct you further as to youl duties as a Grand Jury.
 The people of this State have lin their wisdom, seen fit to prohib it. by law, the manufacture ant sale of intoxicating liquors as beverage. Whether or not you ar' in sympathy with this law is i'm
 material. Such is the law and i | ,cf ha e