White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-12-09
FROM ELY JUDGE
THROWN IN THE DISCARD;
ALLEGED bR|BE OFFERED

| in the Washoe county Jail for !;
period of two months. He elected tc
take the latter course and was &c
cordingly committed to the custody
of the United States marshal, wht
later conducted him into the Washot
county penal institution.
Roy Richards asked for additiona
time in order that he might be af
forded an opportunity to procure the
money with which to pay fine. Tues
! day, however, after receiving tele
gram from Ely, he again went to tn;
federal court and advised Judge Far.
rington that he was unable to pay 6
fine and he was thereupon sentenced
to serve sixty days in the Washot
county Jail.
| M. H. Breen was called immediate
ly after Hansen and Richards Mon
day and his case followed practically
the same procedure as that of Tuck
as he was much in the same position
he having been engaged at the West
ern Club when the recent raid was
made and likewise having his former
case still pending. He was given the
alternative of paying a fine in the
sum of 500 or serving two and one
half months in the Washoe county
Jail, and chose the latter.
J. R. Squires of East Ely upon a
guilty plea was fined $500 and al
lowed ten days in which to raise
the money.
Tony DeMichele was the last of
the Ely delegation called upon to
address the judge and his case was
attended with more excitement than
those who preceded him.
During the sentencing of the de-
PENDANTS who enteed pleas of guilty
Rankin, the officer who obtained the
evidence against the Ely establish
ments late last year and on which
they were arraigned early this year
was called to the stand and asked as
10 the different establishments he
visited and generally as to what he
observed or heard. While relating
his experiences in Ely he said he had
made it appear that he might be in
terested in the purchase of an es-
tablishment to conduct on his own
account and in this connection made
inquiry as to what protection
might be procured. He said he was
told that there was what was known
as an Official still" in operation, in
which he said he was further told
that former district attorney and
another officer were interested and
that if the product of the alleged
Official still was purchased at the
rate of $40 per gallon the "soft
drink establishments" dispensing the
beverage to thirsty patrons would
not be molested. He further said
he was informed that equally as good
product could be procured from
other sources, but those who handled
the product of the Independent re-
finers were knocked over" by the
officials. During the presentation of
this line of testimony many leaned
forward in their seats, but all "sat
up when DeMichele was sentenced.
When the last on the list followed
the line taken by the others and en-
tered his plea of guilty United States
District Attorney Springmeyer arose
and addressing the court said:
Your honor, when this man
came into court this morning he
! handed me letter from Judge
McFadder and he further said to
me in effect that if would see that
he got off without a Jail sentence
he would hand me bunch of
money. I do not know now what
further action shall take in the
matter but would like to have the
court take it into consideration in
passing sentence"
The federal district attorney then
further explained to the court that
he had, he thought, another letter
written in behalf of DeMichele be
sides that written by Judge McFad
den: that he was Informed the de-
fendant was a man of family and a
good citizen, but he could not over
, look the offer of bribe. He said
he did not know whether it was 50
inten6ed or not but Officer Brown
was there and heard it, Officer
Brown was then called and said he
heard the remark made by DeMichele
to Mr.. Springmeyer right in the
court room. He said. however, that
often he knew of foreigners to mako
like remarks, not meaning to offer a
bribe but due to their lack of un-
derstanding of the English language
and the law as well The court
thereupon severely reprimanded De-
! Michele and followed the reprimand
with a sentence of two months in
Jail and fine of $400.
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