Arizona republican., 1921-05-07
FR|DLEY FOUND
 GUILTY; GIVEN
 TWO YEAR TERM
Former Prohibition Agent Convicted In Federal Court; Others Sentenced As Session Ends

COnVlcted In Federal
 Court; Others Sentenced
 As Session Ends
 Roy A. F'ridley. former prohibition enforcement officer, who was charged with having conspired to violate the provisions of the national ! prohibition amendment, and whose defense had included a statement in criminating various government off cials in violations of the same law, was found guilty by q jury in the | United States district court yester- day afternoon and was sentenced to serve two years in the federal peni tentiary at Leavenworth on each of the two counts of the indictment The sentences, however, are to run con- currently
 Later in the day the report of the grand jury to Judge William H. Saw telle was made public. It is devoted almost entirely to censure of R. E. L. Shepherd, county attorney, for the 'promiscuous publicity given by him to the allegations contained in F'ridley's statement, which the coun- ty attorney had presented to the grand jury after he had been sub- poenaed by that body. The report declares that the publicity given by the county attorney to the statement was "unwarranted and il-advised, and asserts that if he believed Frid- ley's accusations against federal of ficials were true. immediate prose cution should have been his proper course of action" The report follows in full:
 The Grand Jury Report "In the District Court of the United States, in and for the District of Arizona.
 ITO the Hon. Vim. H. Sawtelle u Judge, Greeting:
 "We. the grand jurors of the United States. impaneled, for the | April 1921, term of. this court, do now make a partial report of our proceedings, to-wit:
 We have considered 22 cases. | voted 19 true bills, returned IS true | bills, and ignored bills.
 And the grand jury desires fur ther to report that as a result of cer tain rumors to the effect that R. E. | l.. Shepherd, county attorney of Mar icopa county. Arizona, had in his possession a statement made by Roy | A. Fridley, which implicated federal officers in alleged irregularities, that the said R. F.. L. Shepherd was sub poenaed and did appear before this body to present the said statement. We also desire to report that the grand jury investigated certain of the accusations made in the state | ment of said Roy A Fridley and that | in the opinion of this bod the ac- cusations investigated were without | foundation or truth; and in view of the fact that this statement was made to a public official whose duty it is to prosecute under the state laws those implicated in the state ment. if in his opinion it is true. we desire to state that.the promiscuous publicity given to this statement by Il tho cai atf after his appearance before this body was unwarranted and ll-advised and was not the proper act of ar official and that if he believed such accusations to be true. immediate | prosecutions should have been his | proper course of action It is, there fore, the decision of this body thai the evidence presented does not war rant further investigation b. us. was decided upon motion. duly mad, and seconded, that further investiga ton by this grand jury be discon, tinued.
 Respectfully submitted.
 HOWARD T. COLLINGS.
 Foreman" II Jury Out 10 Minutes
 II Fridley's conviction came within 1, minutes of the closing of the fina argument to the jury. When the yer dict was read, Fridley remained i'm,
 
 asked him il there was any reasor why sentence should not be pro- nounced, the defendant answered il low voice:
 Il am not guilty, your honor'' II Judge Sawtelle then sentenced hin to two years in the federal peniten- tiary at Fort Leavenworth on eacl of the two counts of the indictment Fridley having been found guilty or | nh ot.sIN ., officer was taken to the city jail where he will remain until he is taken to the penitentiary which vii be about the first of the week.
 The government made a surpris move yesterday morning in the cas by placing on the witness stand
 shortly after court had convened Luther Mechanism, who had com, from Fl Paso to testify against tn former prohibition official Interes in McClanahan's testimony was in
 tense as he had been charged b
 Fridley with having assisted to kid
 nap the latter and having sent hir
 out of the state on a threat tha if he remained in Phoenix he woul be bumped off"
 McCIanahan's Story Mechanism declared that he Ina come to Phoenix of his own volitiol ) After having denied wholly Fridley | allegation of having been kidnape' , Mechanism told of his relations wit the former prohibition officer in tn , sale of intoXicants seized by the lat
 ter The witness said Fridley ha
 come to. him in the jail at Tucso
 and had arranged to go into a part .i nership with him after his releas , In August of last year, he said, | an met Fridley in Phoenix. Fridley too ,n him to a room at the American Lt en zion headquarters and turned ov, he to him P bottles of whiskey whic he was to be sold by him and one-h ha ITS the proceeds turned over to Fridle
 The witness said that the propos
 was so soft for him that he turne
 over to Fridley more than the la N ter's share.
 2 McClanahan's next deal with Eric
 ley he said, was in October ar
 concerned the consignment of whi
 key from Yuma which was the bas
 of the conspiracy charges against u
 former prohibition agent. The wi
 ness told how Gus Gray and Frdl'
 had brought the whiskey in sacks
 a house outside of Phoenix in whi,
 he and another were living. He sa
 that the whiskey was left there; tn
 Gray on a following day took all