Imperial Valley press., 1920-03-29

A. No. cannot. He had this down
lin a book and he burned the book up?
| Q. Who burned the book?
/ A. Mr.. Hill or some of them in the
office, cannot say who.
@. What did, Mr. Hill instruct you
to do when you went over there?
/ A. Do you mean how come him to
make this offer to me?
! @. Yes, under what circumstances :?
! A. Well, | come in there one day
and he seen that l, was sore about
something, and | started to jump cn
him about some stuff. and he made
me an offer, he says, Now Hyde, /
will tell you, now had this fellow
Rooms come out here with me, his
intention was to go around and do
this collecting for me on these gamb-
ling houses, and these sporting houses
Q. You mean by that that Rooms
was to do the collecting for Hill?
A. Yes.
Q. Well. proceed.
! A He saws he did not do it. he went
{ back, and in the meantime Mr.. Kemp
told us the reason he did not do this
vas because he seen how things were
going here. and seen it was too much.
! tie police force was all onto HITS
scheme.
G. Where did Rooms go?
/ A. To Missouri some place, have a
card.
/ Q. At the time Mr.. Hill mentioned
! this, had he been on the police force.
A. Yes and Mr.. Kemp told me, he
saw. he is going to let some of you
j fellow. be the fall guy.
/ o. Which Kemp was that?
A. Flave Kemp.
Q. The one that was deputy sheriff :?
4. Yes. sir, and | says 4 will bet
he don't get US. will beat him at his
own game He was going to let me
be the fall guy.
/ O. You mean he was going 20 let
you do the collecting?
4. Yes, and l went right straight
1 rom kemp's office over to tho c hlet,
! snd ! was going to jump him ABOUT
II. and he says you so ahead and 90
this collecting and we viii. split 1t
three WAYS and l says alright. and
} he wront down the Washington rooms
!, right next to the Riverside rHomS.
n @. On Broadway?
\ A. Yes, and the Franklin.
\ O. Where is the Franklin:
y 4 II is on the corner of Fifth and
/ Broadway, right across from the Ore
con hotel and then he wrote down the
Ramona.
I @. Where is the Ramona rooms?
A. On Broadway between Fourth
4 and Fifth on Broadway.
O. What else?
A. Then he wrote down the Saa
Diego.
{ @. What is the San Diego?
A. A rooming house.
O. Where?
A. On Main and Fifth, right up ovel
the Ell Centre National bank, right II
the same building. and then after hf
wrote them down. | says DO you want
to get the Riverside - and he says No
| will attend to that and after lie tolt
me this he taken the paper and burned
it up on the floor.
O. Was that paDer already prepared
when he showed it to you?
a. Yes, sir, he burned that up ant
then ! went, oct and went over there
he told me to stav away from thf
Riverside but went right straight tt
| the Riverside the first one.
O. Before you went there. wna'
three ways was this to be split?
A. Between the chief and his boy
wilkins, and myself.
O. His boy was on the police force
then?
A. Yes.
O. Did he tell you how much money
was to be collected each week?
A. Yes. sir: $3.50 each week ever
Saturday night at the Riverside and
S25 week at the Ramona, ard he
SAYS. make the Washington pay about
S25 a. week
O. Did that include the Franklin ana
the San Diego also?
A. Yes, sir.
@. And you went to the Riverside
rooms did you?
A. Yes. sir; could not say the date
@. He had instructed YOU to go tc
tho riverside rooms first to collect
} $3.50?
] A. No. he told me to stay away, he
would attend to that.
Q. But you did go over there?
A Yes.
Q. Did you do that of your owr
volition?
l. ~ ySS' SlI.
Q. When you go there what dit
you find?
A. Mrs. Willard told me she was
doing business with the chief, and she
asked me if knew it. and | says yes,
and she asked me how did | know il
and ! told her had seen her come in
there and have conversations with the
chief, and the chief also told me she
was to pay him.
O. Where did you see her come?
A. In the chief of policies office in
the city hall.
@. Did you have further conversa-
ton with Mrs. Willard?
A. Not at that time
Q. How long after that was it that
you saw her at the Riverside rooms ?
A. 1t was on Saturday night, | be.
lieve.
O. Do you know what Saturday that
was?
A. No ! could not state.
q. And you don't remember what
month it was?
A. Yes, it was in January, last
month.