Imperial Valley press., 1920-03-30

4. Yes.
Q. Had the chief instructed you
anything else in regard to the Frank
lin house.
A. He said he would Ike to get
that -- - into 1t because
he is too wise, he knows everything.
Q. Meaning the rroprietor' Of the
Franklin house?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And you told him not to put /
girl in there?
A. Yes.
Q. And MIR. Hill had told you to tell
him that?
A. No. sir, Mr.. Hill told me to tell
him to put one in.
9. Do you know one Bib Lee?
Q. What did he do during the month
of January?
A Peddled hop and whisky.
Q. Where did he live?
A. He lived over on Commercial,
between Fourth and Fifth.
Q. Was he living there alone?
A. He always had someone in there
with him, some hop head.
Q. He was hop head himself was
he
A. He sure was.
Q. Do you know whether or not Bob
Lee had peddled whisky?
A. | do.
9. Do you know what he did with
the proceeds of that?
A. do.
Q. What?
A. Gave it to the chief.
Q. Do you know how much?
A. Five dollars on every pint.
Q. Do YOU know where this whisky
was procured?
A. Part of it was from the city hall
Q. Did you ever see any whisky
from the city hall?
A. No. | never seen any whisky. but
have seen that | would swear there
was whisky in it. in the sack he taken
out.
Q. Do you know how that sack got
in the city hall?
A. Yes. sir.
@. How?
A l brought it in there myself,
brought it from a fellow bootlegging,
| caught him at this Bob's house, a
fellow named Miller.
". DO NOu hllOW llo" poGliSS
of whisky was in that sack?
A. There was 46 half pints at the
time l got them.
@. That was procured at raid on
Miller was it?
A. Yes. sir.
Q. Taken to the city hall?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And then Mr. Hill took whisk'
from that sack and gave it to Bol
Lee did he?
A. | could not sav whether il Wa
the same whisky. but it was the sam
brand and in that sack.
Q. What brand was it?
j A. Sunny Brook.
Q. Have YOU ever seen Bob Lee Sc,
any of that whisky?
A. l have.
+ q. How much?
A. | have seen him sell that anC
hop just peeping through the door a
him.
Q. Do you know what he sold It for
A. He got five dollars for hall
9. How much of that did he turr
over to Mr.. Hill.
i A. $3.50 he was supposed to.
Q. Do you know how much Hill re
ceived from Bob Lee for whisky h(
had sold?
A. No, | could not say.
Q. How many times did you see Boz
Lee sell whisky?
A. Three different times.
Q. And each time it was a pint bot
lie of Sunny Brook, was it?
4. Yes. Sir.
@. And to the best of your knowl
edge that was taken from the cit!
! hail?
A. Yes, sir
@. Had Bob Lee told you he wa:
paying $3.50 bottle to Chief Hill?
A No. sir.
| @. How did you know that?
A. Since this came up he told mt
I how much he was giving him, he die
not know | was watching.
@. Did the chief tell you to leave
this Bob Lee alone and not bother
him?
A. Yes.
O. Had he told you that before yot
say you went and stood and watched
1 him from the outside?
\ A. Yes, sir.
Q. You did not arrest him then?
A. No, sir.
@. Weren't you sworn to as de-
putty marshal. wasn't that your duty
A. | am supposed to go under in
structions from him, | told him about
it, and he said for me to attend to
my own damned business, that he was
attending to that, that he would in
struct me when to go over there.
@. Did anybody hear him say that
A. His boy.
1 @. How long after you went on the
police force was it before you started
I TO collect for the chief?
4 A. never commenced collecting un-
I til January.
@. How long after Mr. Koons that
you speak of left and you started in?
I A. He had been gone about ten or
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