The Caldwell tribune., 1922-10-27
Law v|OLAT0RS
CIRCULATE LIES
I D GAIN { NDS
Bootleggers and Moon.
sinners Out After Scalp
of Clarence Hill and
Sam Webb.

Bootleggers, moonshiners. and tho
underworld riff-raff generally are out
to get Clarence Hill, county attor-
ney, and Sam Webb, deputy sheriff
who are coming up for election in this
county on the Republican ticket
Sensational disclosures proving that
an exceptional record of law enforce.
ment in rounding up law violators in
Ianyon county has prompted retalia-
. tory measures designed to keep these
\ men from office in the next biennium
came to light here last Thursday.
With an almost 100 per cent record
obtained in convictions of liquor law
violators arrested in this county the
l past two years staring them in the
i face, booze peddlers are taking this
means of circumvinting a possible
! REPETITION of this disturbing situation
I during the next two years be crculat-
ing malicious falsehoods and lies con-
| cerning the record of these men. 1t
has long been suspected that organized
opposition was combating county Of
/ ficers in this county but not until
/ Thursday, was the extent of the or
ganizaion against law and order in
Canyon county appreciated.
\ Entering pool hall where willing
ears were listening, a man who has
anot been apprehended as yet but who
Is believed to be Ellis Wilson, who es-
scaped from the county Jail week ago
Sunday evening, asserted that he and
his partner had twice escaped trial in
Canyon county by buying off, Mr..
Hill and Mr. Webb On the first oc-
casion, they paid $3.50 for freedom,
he told his selected audience in guard
ed tones. A week later, the pair were
re-arrested, again on a liquor charge
and this time 5000 was paid to the
county officers for protection"
Emphasizing these statements, Will
rson declared that he was willing to
make affidavit to that effect. And
then, without disclosing his identity
4 he said that Mr.. Webb had been brib-
! ed to leave the Jail door unlocked that
Sunday evening that the four prisoner:
tmight walk out to liberty. In direct
ing this portion of his attack upor
+ Mr.. Webb, Wilson overlooked the fac
that it could be undeniably establish
ed, as it has been, that Mr.. Webb wa:
not at the court house Sunday, tha
other attaches at the sheriffs offic'
1 closed and locked the Jail doors Sun
! day evening and that the escaping
! prisoners broke the locks on the Jai
door in making their getaway. I, +
Silbaugh, Caldwell contractor, re
placed them and repaired the damag
done early Monday morning after tn
escape was discovered.
So realistic did Wilson make hi
charges, however, that when the IN
formation fell into the hands OF lead
ing Democrats who are politically ac'
i've in this campaign, that attempt
were Immediately made to obtain al
! 6davits which Wilson volunteered
make Without waiting for invest
cation of the integrity OF the perso
making the charges, Democrats exer
- o,,.r,, means to obtain written eV
dence embodying these reports
Realizing that he had started
wb;rlwind and believeing that his pu
nose had been accomplished Wilso
who was driving a Cadillac roads'e
took advantage of an opportunity wh'
his questioners started the whee's
Democratic political offie'aldom '
motion, TO make his getaway
With his escape and the Know
edge before them that the 'niorhs,
was an escaped prisoner VINO the u'
before he broke Jail, had pad a n"e
$3.50 into the county treasury Dem
Gratis Immediately dropped the na'''
realizing that it was but another
number OF incidents recently uneo
cred that are being used to a'Se'e'
NJ, u;u and Mr.. Webb.