Arizona republican., 1921-05-06

which was consigned to the northern part of the state at the express office several months ago, and broke 1t open, finding it to be filled with whiskey. He took out several of the bottles and opened one which he passed to one of the express com pany's employees after he had taken a drink.
 Took 1t to His Room
 He called a car then the witness said, and loaded the whiskey aboard. The witness had asked him, he said. to bring the trunk either to the pro- hibition offices or to the sheriff's office. but Fridley took it to his room at the American Legion headquarters He later reported that the liquor had been stolen. Attorney Pugh attempt ed unsuccessfully to duplicate the witness in the theft, Wolf sustaining his testimony by evidence that he had reported the seizure to the sheriff s office immediately after the trunk had been taken to F'ridleys room.
 After Fridley left the stand yester- day the first witness brought by the defense was Hughes Carr, special in vestigator for the district attorney s office, who was excused after a few questions. Al Dewitt, deputy sher- if, then told how he, Fridley, Gus Gray, one of the principals in the high lacking" case mentioned dur ing the trial, and Deputy Sheriff Leo Troutman had searched for and found Bunk Dykes, another principal in the high jacking," after Gray had re- ported the incident.
 Constable Jay Jones of Buckeye testified that Fridley had approached him with a proposal to accompany him in a search for stills and a wagon load of intoxicants near Agua Cali ente, but the witness was unable tc fix the dates of the conversations. l James Poole, employed by the American Express company, corrobo- rated the testimony of Wolf concern ing the seizure of the trunk, and l told how he had objected to F'rid ley's breaking open the consignment without a warrant He said that Fridley had convinced him that ht did not need a warrant, and ther broke open the trunk, taking out { bottle, which he opened and passed to the witness and asked him to tast, 1t. He said that F'ridley left ou three or four bottles when he closed the trunk again, and that he gave on, of the flasks to the witness.
 Suitcase "Rattled"
 Earl Cunningham of Yuma, a stag, driver. told of having made severa trips With Fridley. On one of thes' trips. he said, Fridley arrested A Jones, and on another Fridley hac him drive southwest of Yuma to , Buick car that they found alongsid, the road without a driver, and iron which Fridley took two packages which seemed to contain whiskey Fridley brought the packages to hi room, the witness said. He also de scribed how he had helped F'ridle, aboard a train, the defendant having a heavy suitcase which "rattled."
 Stuart L. Bailey of the prohibition directors office described how Frid ley had been appointed an enforce ment agent upon the recommends ton of himself, W. T. Webb. the di rector. and Judge Alfred Franklin collector of internal revenue for tn
 state. Contradicting FridIey's for mer assertions that the present cas
 was "frame-up" because of differ ences in political opinion, Bailey de
 clared that when Fridley had aske
 for the position as agent he had bee
 told that while it was the policy o
 the department to hire Democrats tn
 fact that Fridley was a Republican
 would have no bearing because he wa
 A-SofoAci. ptoNlQcQ lldl ne ul
 not talk politics on the job. Baile
 also described the operations of tn
 directors office and its Jurisdiction. John B. Henke, United States com : missioner, contradicted F'ridley's al , legation that John H. Langston, as sistant United States attorney, ha promised immunity to Gus Gray i the Bunk Dykes case provided h
 would testify against the latter. Thi , contradiction was supported b Langston who left his place as pros
 ecutor and took the witness stan after Henke.
 7 Offers to Answer
 J4angston was asked during hi , cross examination by Attorney Pug
 why Gray had not received a heavie
 sentence in that case and why he ap peared to have been treated lenientl by the government. Thomas 4
 Flynn, United States attorney, her
 told Attorney Pugh that if the latte would use him as a witness for tn
 defense he would be glad to get O the stand and answer his question
 Pugh refused the offer.
 The last witnesses were two at torneys, w. c. Anderson of Phoeni
 and NJ J. Dougherty of Mesa. At torney Anderson denied F'ridley's al
 legatio that he had made a state ment to the attorney that govern ment officials were engaged in traf licking illegally in liquor, whil Daugherty contradicted Fridley's tes timony that he had not known whe he was placed under bond that it wa to insure his presence at a prelimi
 nary hearing. Fridley, before he ha brought the Kidnapping charges 0 Wednesday, had said that he had be : lieved that his failure to attend tn . hearing for which he had been bonde would mean simply that he ha , waived the hearing. Attorney Daugf erty said that the time for the heal } ing had been set in the presence FridIey and that there seemed to haN l been no misunderstanding about 1t.