Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-25

Walter Peabody Local Resi-
dent, Paid $500 Fine For
Violating Volstead Az.

Onlt0Q STATES JO0ge Miller
today opened hiss first term Of federal
district court il this city. He came to
the city to hear the pleas OF a4num.
b Of prisoners who were indicted
some months ago-and to dispose OF
several bankruptcy matters. He ex-
pects to adjourn court some time to-
morrow. 3t82
The greater part Of today's session!
vas devoted to the arraignmentf Of
prisoners. Judge ST.. Nuchols. deputy
raignfnehts. ssss & SO
Walter Peabody, who resides on
lone avenue, pleaded. guilty to violat-
Ing h prohibition act and was fned
1900. The fine was paid. Peabody was
arrested last winter. after Grand
Forks city and county and federal
prohibition officers found a complete
still In his home. III
Other Arrangements were:
/. l.. p. Jung. who was fined SO after
he pleaded guilty to sending obscene
matter through the mails.
81 1ver Clauson pleaded not guilty to
mail .M n
y Arthur Fee, Ed Mcmahon and Wal
lace Rye, jointly indicted, pleaded not
guilty to violating the prohibition act.
I: Martin Hagness pleaded not guilty
to violating the prohibition act.
Henry Harris, Selmer Hagness. Fee
liz Forseth, Gus Forseth, Richard
Forseth and AL Forseth. Jointly indict-
ed, pleaded not guilty to. a charge. Of
c~onsptring to violate the prohibition
act.
Cyrus Edwards pleaded guilty to
shipping unit Eggs in interstate COM
merce and paid a Inc Of $780,.
i Ole ]. Nordlie pleaded not guilty to
violating the prohibition act. !.
+ Charles j. Black, pleaded not guilty
to violating tho interstate commerce
regulations.
Martin Coffey pleaded not guilty to
violating the prohibition act.
Austin Krautz pleaded guilty to vio-
lating he prohibition act and paid a
fine Of $25.
Charles Turner and Lambert Long
muir, both of Emerson, Man.. pleaded
guilty to the charge of illegally trans
porting liquor into h country, but,
after hearing their story, judge Miller
refused to accept the plea. He passed
their case until later in the day.
Turner and Longmuir declared that
they. with another resident of Emer-
son, rented a q at a garage in that
city tormake a trip to Pembina- A
man. whom they did not know and
who is listed as John Doe in the
indictment, asked them to take him
to Pembina, they said, and they did
80. He had a suit case, which was not
opened during the entire trip, they de-
clared. The man, then, hired them to
take him to Joliet, where they left
him. Upon their return TO Pembina
they were stopped by customs officers,
who searched the car. Finding no
liquor in the car, they said, they were
ordered to go, back to Joliet, where
the customs authorities found the
suit case, containing twelve bottles Of
liquor, in q hotel. They were then ar
rested and put in Jail, where they re-
NAMED for two monlns till bailed out
by their parents.
Counsel for the defendants explain
cd that a plea Of guilty was entered
as q matter of dollars and cents" He
said he did not believe the men were
guilty. blu that they and their fathers
had been under a heavy financial
strain because Of the difficulty, and
they had decided to plead guilty and
throw themselves on the mercy Of the
court. ~ fNa4 xsl
Judge Miller said he did not like the
idea OF any man pleading guilty ''as a
matter of dollars and cents" It. was
not right. to enter such q plea under
such circumstances, he said, for, un-
less guilty, no man had a right to
plead guilty. He; therefore. refused to
accept the plea.
Before taking up the various indict-
ments, the court admitted four Grand
Forks attorneys to practice in federal
courts. They were O.. T. Owen, Graf
tan Owen, H. l.. Schwam and Horace
Webster.
"A number OF federal court attaches
are here for the brief term. They i'm
clude: James F.. Shea, United States
marshal and his chief deputy, c.. r.
Wattles; Judge s. l.. Nuchols, deputy
United States attorney. and Howard
Strach, chief clerk in the federal at
.torney's. Office; J. a. Montgomery,
clerk of the federal court, and his