The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-12-03
Crooks:
A Frititless Raid.
Find the Ldndiddy.
Red, the Yegg.
SOME Ldiryer.
BY HAL ARMSTRONG

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| SOME Lawyer. |
BY HAL ARMSTRONG
DIED. THE YEGG. a gent who ekes
~ out a miserable living pctering
SAFES. so he informed me. swears this
tale is uua- And tho records bear
him out. when the incident here re-
hated FIRST came TO hts attention he
was SO impressed he says. that he
went 10 the offiee OF his mouthpiece
and coldly threw him down. trans
, ferring the future legal business Of
Red. the YeEg. TO the mor- aStuts and
clever lawyer who figures prominent.
~ herein. Red is a sent OF perspl-
cacity.
Enter the dry squad
The scene Is laid upstairs IN .
First ave. hotel where Red. the Yegx.
was making his temporary headquar-
ters--a hotel noted for It's odor OF
new-made booze.
DRY SQUADS BOOTS OPEN
DOORS ALONG CORRIDORS
Doors along the corridors yielasd
20 the magic touch OF the dry
squads heavy boots. Moonshsne--
half a pint OF twas found. shifted.
confscated and marked as evidence
A young woman was marched out
into the hall.
you're the iandlady- decided the
spokesman Of the squad
II am notF' corrected tho young
woman
-who Is. then,- from the spokss-
man.
~Afrs. Jennie That's her room over
there: the one you didn't 20 into.
she's not at home. Her and her hus-
band has gone duck hunung for q
day or two
- Prom behind bis own door. =
crack ajar. Red. the Yegg. watched
The spokesman 60 20 the door Of Mrs
Jennie's room and burst Il In He
oAw the spokesman enter and drug
1rom = closet case. not Of bootleg
whis1y. but Of champagne.
no MATTER WHAT BECAME
Or THE CHAMPAGNE .
WI what became OF the champagne Is
neifher here NOR there. II matters
MT in this story. but the young
woman was arrested and. two days
1nter. Mrs Jennie and her husband.
Mrs Jennie's husbands lawyer got
= call from the jail and went to sre
others Mrs. Jennie was wroth at
4 the young woman who had said sire
was the landlady. tho she was. In
facG
s '-Hhe could Of said Just as wen that
\ the renters Of that room were out
NJ present. and she didn't remember
their narnesr- Mrs. Jennie corn
p1ained- Then we wouldn't be into
this ness Instead Of being charged
with running q house where liquor
vas sold. we'd be out on the pave
ment. but for herr
But. as Red. the Yegr, declared.
The lawyer was smart young mouth.
piece.
~He taken the case before the u.
commissioner explained Red. the
rexr.
This man and this here woman
the commissioner says. is the land
lord and iandlady of this here house. ,
WHAT PROOFS YOU GOTr"
SAYS THE LAWYER
~But the lawyer. he says different
He says. What proofs Of you got
that this here Il so. II the court
please he says. Nothing a-tail.' he
says. but the word OF this here
young woman. who is the real land
lady herself. trying to throw the
blame onto innocent PARTIES
And all this while Mrs. Jennie and
hsr husband sets there looking like
- couple OF injured church workers
The commissioner takes a good look
at them and says to the lawyer,
That's 30: we only got the word Of
This here one witness up against the
word OF both Of them. The court1l
turn EN- loose and dismiss the case.
but this here young woman win have
90 face the grand jury
well. the grand jury meets The
oentry at the door wouldn't let me
IN. but ] got II straight from one
who knows-get me. Tho lawyer. he
goes In with the girl and confronts
me jury.
= This here says the lawyer, fs
the height Of numbskulIery on the
parts Of the police. Here they come
bringing in this here innocent young
girl. accusing her OF being the land
lady OF that notorious resort.
~sHE Amt THE LANDLADY,
GENTS; sHE AMT NOTHIN'"
~.But she amt the landiady, as all
~ these bulls well know she amt.
She amt nothing. gents. nothing.
This here Mrs. Jennie and her hus-
band is the iandIady. that's who she
k'
And 70 prove II he called Mrs.
Jennie and her husband TO the wit.
ness stand.
"'Aint you the landlady OF this
here place that was raidedy he asks.
And Mrs. Jennie right up and says,
f'sure We rs; everybody in town
knows that
"And right there the care was won.
After the commissioner had let Mrs.
Jennie and her husband loose, they
couIdn't be charged with the same
;cTime twice, could they. eh7 No, they
Ncpuldn't And they could get up
[Xere on the Witness stand and spill
ffre beans and nobody would lay a
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