Arizona republican., 1920-12-12
MAN IN 'H|GHJACK|NC
 CASE FOUND GUILTY .0N DRY LAW CHARGE

l Bunk Dykes. young, pleasing of feature and well dressed, who is said to have bee none of the best known of the young men about town" until his retirement some time ago, was found guilty by a jury in the United 1 States district court yesterday on | charges of having conspired to violate | the provisions of the national proh1- | bition act and of having transported | intoxicating liquor against the form and force of the statutes in such | cases made and provided.
 But Bunk Dykes, in the argot of the shadowy world that has it's existence 1 in the narrow space between the l dreary citadels of the law and the rest of mankind. was really convicted, as the federal officers said yesterday, | of "highjacking," and these gentlemen, who must know the strange language { of the shadows. refuse to call the al legged. wrong doings of Dykes by any other name.
 The "highjacking' of which Bunk | Dykes was convicted yesterday and for which sentence will be passed be- \ fore the end of the present session of the court, hinges, according to the tes- timony in the case and the tale of the federal officers. on a certain happen ing on the evening of October IT, 1920, which was also Sunday, when Dykes George Taylor and Gus Gray rode out nearly to the end of North Central avenue to get a consignment of liquor which had been purchased from Gray by Dykes and Taylor, according to the authorities. Gray. it appears, had no automobile. so that when he agreed to sell some of his stock to Dykes and Taylor. he stipulated that they must furnish car in which to- carry him tC the hiding place of the liquor ane bring back the purchase. This Dykes and Taylor had done, renting the cal from a down town garage.
 Arrived near the end of the thor oughfare. Gray left his clients at the side of the road and went on alone 1T the machine, according to the officers In few moments he returned and il the machine he had II cases of half pint flasks of whisky, 1t was testi. fled, which. however, had been talxer | from the boxes and placed in sacks | Dykes and Taylor got in the machine | which was driven only a short dis tance toward town when Gray turne, 1 it northeast and proceeded in the gen eral direction of Scottsdale. He haC | not gone far. however when h, stopped the automobile for the pur pose of examining the bottles, it i said, and becoming certain that thei content was really liquor and no some colored substitute.
 He left the machine, therefore. an, dragged a sack of bottles to the shel | ter of a bush. He stooped to exam me his cargo. and when he arose-h was highJacked." In other words Taylor and Gray, it was declared yes terday, had covered him with busi ess-like revolvers and curtly com manded him to throw his hands in tn air. They then told him that the
 were federal officers, that they ha caught him with the goods" and or uered i'm to get in the car. Laclzin any alternative, Gray stepped int the automobile and his psuedo-pur chasers drove the machine into Phoe nix.
 Before they had penetrated the res
 ldential district very far howeve
 they stopped the car told Gray tn,
 the best thing he could do was
 make himself scarce, forced him ol
 or the ear and then drove away-nC
 forgetting, of course, the II cases
 one-half pint bottles in sacks. whic
 appears to mean 52S bottles, at abol
 $22o @ case, according to the feder;
 authorities.
 Soon the story was told to tho,
 who guard the majesty of the la,
 and within a short time the grar
 Jury had indicted the trio. TT
 charges were conspiracy to violate tl
 prohibition laws. transporting Iiou,
 unlawfully, and impersonating an O
 flcer in the case of Dykes and Tavlo
 Of this last charge Dykes was a.
 qultted yesterday Sentence on u
 other two charges was deferred
 Judge William H. Sawtelle
 During all the progress of tba t,; Mrs. Dykes has been present in | courtroom, and her solicitude for h } husband has been noted by all t
 court attendants.