The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-26
JOHN Il. MEYERS
Wins MANY CASES
ASSISTANT SECUTOR IN
CHARGE OF LIQUOR PROSECUT-
IONS LOSES FOUR ACTIONS

John H. McEvers of Boise, assist
ant United States district attorney il
charge of the prosecution of all fed
eral prohibition violations in Idaho
in his tenure of office starting Oc-
tober l, 1922, has tried 1873 defendants
for prohibition law violations. OF
this number SO were convicted before
juries, 10S plead guilty and only
seven defendants were acquitted by
juries.
Three of the seven defendants ac-
quilted were tried jointly with other
defendants who were convicted. Since
Mr. McEvers took over the federal
work he has lost only four cases.
Eighteen cases he dismissed because
of defective search warrants, miss
ing witnesses or lack of evidence.
Jail sentences totaling &c months
were pronounced by Judge Frank S.
Dietrich and the fines at this term
of court totaled SALTS on liquor law
violations alone.
COeur d'Alene Term Next
The Mashburn white slavery case
closed the calendar of the spring
term of federal court here Judge
Dietrich will open court at Occur
d'Alene Monday Fourteen defend
ants entered pleas of guilty to vio-
lations of the national prohibition
act. Five defendants were found
guilty of liquor law violations by
juries.
A verdict of guilty was brought in
against SIM Rose, Mike Conway and
James Woodson for the Orofino post
office robbery after one of the most
sensational cases of the term. These
three men were each sentenced to
seven and one-half years in Leaven-
worth and fined $1,000 each. Joe
Deckard of Culdesac, who plead
guilty to resisting an officer with a
deadly weapon, received a sentence
of five years in the federal peniten-
tiary at LeavenWorth.
Errors are Assigned
Miles Johnson of Lewiston, attor-
ney for Mrs. Ruth Hazelton, convict
ed of possession and sale of liquor
and with maintaining a nuisance at
the Central hotel at Lewiston, per-
fected a writ of error and appeal to
the circuit court of appeals this
morning. Mrs. Hazelton was SEN
fenced to so days Imprisonment in |
the Nez Perce county jail and fined
$500.
Earl Mashburn, acquitted last night /
of white slavery and arrested by the (
Latah county authorities for break
ing Jail at Lewiston, was taken to
Lewiston today by Dick Boyer, Nez
Perce county deputy sheriff.
Is University A1umnus
Mr.. McEvers, who has made an
enviable reputation as federal
prosecutor, was prosecuting attorney
of ShOshone county from January 10, +
1921, to September Is, 1922, when he
resigned to accept the federal posi-
tion. He is a 1915 graduate of the
University of idaho college of law
During the war he was first lieu
tenant of company B of the 126th
32nd division He was in :
command of the company in the Ar
5onne offensive. After the war Mr.
IcEvers received special certificates
rom the University of London and /
he council of legal education, Lin ]
,oln's Inn, London, England. T
He was prosecutor in charge of the
'ecent sensational liquor conspiracy +
,ase in Boise in which a conviction
vas obtained of six defendants in @
.luding the sheriff of Ada county +
fr. McEvers is a member OF the Beta n
Theta Pi fraternity and the Phi Alpha 4
Delta professional law fraternity. 8