, 1922-10-25
OFFICER FOUND GUILTY
Of BEING DRUNK FINED $500
Hard Fought Legal Battle Lasts All Day And Part OF Night--W.
L. Simpson Wallops U. S. Attorneys-Packe
Court Room Listens To Evidence.

So great was the interest in the
case, of Galen B. Hodge. prohibition
officer charged with being drunk up
on the main street of Cody, hat it
was necessary to hold the hearing be-
fore Police Judge w. S. Owens in the
courtroom at the court house.
The spectators that filed the court
room comfortably when the hearing
begun at $3.50. increased in number
until long before the night session,
which started at half past seven, tax
ed its capacity while the doorway was
damned with a crowd which extended
far into the corridor.
Judge P. w. Metz was present, ].
H. Van Horn, County Attorney, Carl
Jackson and Merle c. Wachtel of the
prohibition forces, Deputy U. s. Mar
shall Frank Cook, deputy U. S. District
Attorney Clyde Watts, and the Sheri-
dan attorney, r. e. McNally who rep
resented the defense, w. L. Simpson
and D.. E. HOLSTER for the prosecu-
ton.
Wizard was brought in on a stretch
er and placed on the floor. while
Hodge was in court with his head
wrapped in gauze, strips reaching
down to each corner of his mouth,
like a bride, and his upper lip swol-
len.
The absence of any feeling of ami
mus toward the prisoner was one of
the noticeable features. of the testi-
mony given by the towns witnesses.
They appeared to wish to give Hodge
the benefit of every doubt as to his
condition.
The first witness called was F. S.
McPeake, a barber employed in Curt
Howell's shop on Sheridan Avenue.
He testified hat he knew the prison
er, had shaved him between five-thirty
and ~six-thirty on the night of the
shooting and had smelled liquor OH
his breath plainly.
Lester Wilson, who is employed in
Duly's pool-hall, testified that Hodge
came in and Interchangeable and that
he was undoubtedly intoxicated, SO
iuch so that he staggered. Wilson
said that he had been a policeman in
Casper and therefore knew an intox-
icated person when he saw one.
William Holbrooke, jeweler in the
Cody Drug Store. testified that he was
present when Hodge came in and ask
ed Miss Lambert for a quart bottle Of
ginger-ale, that he propped himself
up on the soda water counter and that
he staggered over to the jewelry coun-
ter when he started for the door upon
being told that the store had no gin
ger-ale in bottles.
Miss Jessie Lambert c~orroborated
Holbrooke's story, saying that he I'M
m~istakably staggered and she consid-
cred him intoxicated, so much so that
/ she discussed it with Holbrooke after
the prohibition officer had departed.
D. Ricketts, testified that he pass
ed Hodge on the crossing to the Irma
and that he gave Hodge ~right-of-way
owing to his condition.
Wizard vas then placed on the table
on his stretcher and told the story of
the incidents leading up to the shoot
ing and after, practically as it was
told in last weeks Enterprise.
Wizard stated hal he was not inter-
ested in Hodge hat evening but in
Mrs. Laura Wallace and her sister,
Mrs. Arnold, whose misconduct upon
another occasion had been reported
to him.
He followed Hodge and the women
until he saw them all go in the house
to gether. Before going off duty he
told Joe Davenport, the night mar
shall, to keep an eye On them.
He did not see them again until he
was called by Davenport about 1880,
He. in turn, called James RACER, a
neighbor. to witness the scene in the
kitchen where Hodge was spending
the evening.
The stories of RACER, Davenport,
Spencer and Wizard did not differ in
any essential detail, They all saw
the black quart bottle and the two
pint bottles OF ginger-ale with which
they were mixing high-balls. They
saw Hodge kiss the women and dis
tribute his caresses impartially.
Clarence Green. a high school boy,
testified that he met Wizard and