The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-28
FINAL ARGUMENTS
 IN ATTACHMENT
 CASE CONCLUDED
Supreme Court Will Go Into Consultation Today In Case of Sheriff of EImore
 County
By FRED H. GORMLEY Montgomery Bureau. The AEe-Hersld 22l-2 FIrst NatinnaI Banh SnIldlng

Montgomery, May 27-(Speclal.)-- Alabama's supreme court will go into consultation Saturday on the case of John Strength, sheriff of Elmors county, and it's decision will determine whether or not he will be removed from office on articles of impeachment preferred by the attorney generals department on the command of Gov. Thomas E. Kilby.
 Arguments in the case were com peted at b.S0 o'clock Friday afternoon and Chief Justice J. c. Anderson an nounced that no consideration would be given to the evidence during tho day. Judge Horace c. Wilkinson closed the argument with an appeal to the supreme court to remove Strength, contending that the state had proved his guilt of accepting graft and of us- ing liquor to excess as well as failing or refusing to enforce the prohibition laws.
 Judge E. Lloyd Tate, former attor- ney general, made the argument for Strength, charging the proceedings to be the result of political differences and laying all Strengths troubles at the feet of his political enemies in El- more county. He said in the past pc litical differences have ended after an election but in this case Strengths enemies are still carrying on.
 Cites Commendntions
 He called attention to the refusal of two or more grand juries of Elmore county to recommend the impeachment of the sheriff. although they made an investigation of the charges, and cited sections of the grand jury reports which commended Sheriff Strength for the enforcement of all laws
 Replying to the argument of Judge Tate, Judge Wilkinson charged that Elmore county. under the regime Of Strength, had become a bootiegger paradise and that bootlegging had Teen carried on without an effort at restriction on the part of the sheriff office.
 Hasty Golden former deputy sheriff. who admitted at the morning session that he had sought to evade the pro cess however, when advised that ne lad been summoned here as witness for the state, was called before the par of the supreme court at the afternoon session and admonished that such &C., ton on his part must not occur again The court held him for contempt when he made the admission. Golden saiu l he heard a subpoena had been issued 1 for him and that he did not return borna nfter receiving the information. He went to Birmingham and was caught by state constables on his re-
 
 l turn towards home.
 l Completes Testimony 1 Sheriff Strength completed his tes- 1 tImony during the forenoon Through out the time he was on the witness tand he denied that he had permitted any corrupt practices In his office during his term, that he had instructed any bonded deputies not to enforce the prohibition laws, or that he had dis posed of liquors seized and had places water in the jugs.
 Strensth admitted that he sold a pis- tol to Clifford Haney for SIS, but doesn't know where he obtained it. The state charged that this pistol was ob- 1 tained from under house when it was raided.
 Referring to the testimony of sev- eral citizens of Eclectic that they could not obtain the assistance of the sheriff 1 in making certain searches, the sheriff said he did not make the searches be- | cause the compla inants would not ob- tain search warrants, but that he did make q report of the complaints tc the grand jury.
 He denied that he swapped a. pistol | taken from Charley Milner when he was arrested on a charge of carryln : | a concealed pistol to State Constable Boswell and then recovered it when ] the investigation of the affair was started.
 He admitted that one time he re- marked that he did not want to sell any pistols taken by him because he wanted to ship a carload but contended
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