The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-11-08

AITGSlS 4DClh Oh ma 50 VI q
ing Liquor.
Supposing you were en- route t
Yellowstone Park on a vacation tri
and you met fellow autoists who's
car was in the ditch alongside tn
road?
You'd help them out, wouldn't you
for the Good Book says something
about rescuing your neighbours mul,
if you find it and the owner in the
ditch beside the road.
But
Suppose when you had gone or
your way, you discover, after you
have played the Good Samaritan, thai
the %ungrateful or grateful men in
the ditch had placed the following
articles in your car, all unbeknown
to YOU:
One container with a little less
than a gallon of spirits frumenti.
One container with a full gallon
four quarts-of the same fluid.
And then, supposing you are
pinched by a brace of dry snoops and
hailed into court and charged with
having intoxicating liquor, to wit:
'hootch' in possession?
Would it make you sore?
Victims of Mixup
This situation is what confronted
Milton B. Wall, William T. MorelH
and Emmett Burke, three Helena
young men who have just returned
home from Bozeman after a jury in
the district court had solemnly con-
sidered the case in all its phases and
pronounced them guiltless of wrong
doing. Maybe the liquor was in their
possession for the sleuths got it
out of their car last August, but the
jury, after listening to the story told
by the trio OF capital city youths, as
to "how come" decided they weren't
to blame for having possession of it.
Shocking Developments
All this is contained in the story
told by the Bozeman Chronicle, which
in part follows:
THE young men were arrested
during the time of the Bozeman
Roundup, when the sponge squad,
working out of the Helena office, was
making its wholesale raids. Accord
ing to the statements made the trio
had left Helena with their camping
equipment to make a trip through the
Yellowstone National park, and had
stopped over in Bozeman to attend
the roundup.
''They arrived in Bozeman late in
the evening of August 8, and had
stopped their car in front of one of
the dance halls. While inside, one
of the prohibition officers searched
their car and found two gallon con-
tanners with moonshine in them. Ar
rests were made and fines were paid
to the city by the young men for
minor ~offenses, and later, informa-
lions were filed against them for the
more serious ones of violating the Ii
quor laws.
The Good Samaritans
ION the witness stand the young
men explained how they came into
possession of the liquor. They said
they had started from Helena late in
the afternoon of August 3 for Boze-
man, their first stop. When they
arrived a short distance this side of
Three Forks, they met a car with
two men in it. The car was in the
ditch, and the men were having a
hard time in getting it out. The Hell
ena men stopped and lent assistance,
with the result that within a few
minutes the car in the ditch was on
the road, and everything was all
/.
1t Was a Cool Night !
while assisting the men in
a gallon container of moon
shine was produced by them. They l
passed the liquor around and all of '
hem took a drink-in fact, several I
It had been raining through I
tut the evening and they were cold I
md chilly, and more or less fatigued. $
The liquor had the effect of dispell- I
ng some of the gloom. =
Wasn't That Fierce? :.
"After the two parties had depart 4
ID, in fact after they had gone so ?
ar as to be entirely separated-it ap- I
,ears the cars were going in oppo- !.
lite directions - Hall, Morelli and !.
burke discovered they had through !,
n error, not only put the gallon con- !
amer from which they refreshed Z
themselves, into the car, but to their
lorror, had also placed the full one q
reside it. Well, it was too late to =
make amends, and the moonshine q
happened thereby to be in the car !
Vhen they reached Bozeman. .,
Character Witnesses :
Character witnesses brought :,
own from Helena, went on the stand y
nd spoke a good word for each and y
IL of the defendants. -
''Messrs Garner and Stepech, of =
he sponge squad, also went on the
tand and admitted they were look
ng for rum M and not for O.
hese particular young men.
''That was that, and after all of =
he testimony in the case was heard, !.
he lawyers agreed to submit it to /
he jury without argument. The re- III