, 1925-04-29
Sheriff w. H. LOOMS
Making Hard Fight
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carried or negotiations with him be-
hind the ice box in regard to paying
protection money. Mr.. Pool stated
that he agreed to do so. He said
this conversation took place about ~:
Is n night.
Mr.. Bronze objected to testimony of
this nature, holding that it had not
been proved that Carey was a bona
fide agent of the sheriff's.
MI. McElvain admitted that this
evidence was circumstantial and Mr..
Pool was temporarily dismissed.
E. j. Goppert, former prosecuting
attorney, succeeded Mr.. Pool. Mr..
Goppert appeared to have two years
gatherings of inside information to
get out of his system in a short space
'of time and proceeded to do so with
a good real of gusto, until Mr.. Bronze
succeeded in stopping him.
Carey, Goppert said, was seldom
in Jail where he should have been, and
for a time "just about ran the sher-
ifs office"
Carey, he stated, was permitted to go
out on a hunting trip, and continued
to hunt until Judge Metz gave an Or
der to ''put Carey back in Jail and to
keep him there"
"Was he confined?" asked MI. Nc
Elvain.
you couldn't keep Carey in Jail;
YOU could run into him most any time
from seven in the morning until mid
night"
Goppert advised the governor that
he had ideas on the subject, but add
ed regretfully, Guess 1 can't tell
them here"
NO." agreed the prosecuting at
torney.
MI. Goppert's testimony, most of it
unlimited, covered accounts of trips to
stills, particularly the Morgan still,
over which he watched for three
hours through the frigid night hours,
to Intellectual attempts to induce the
sheriff to investigate the WilIford
still on Moonshine creek. He guarded
the Carey hootch container about
three hours. he said. He knew it was
nearly full, because he had poked his
forefinger through an opening in it
and got plenty of liquid"
When he asked the sheriff why he
did not get cooperation in the Nor
gan cache case, Goppert declared, the
sheriff told him that Undersherif
Pulley had given it away, and he
brought the cache to Cody as a con-
sequence.
Carl Tompsen, he said was friend
'ly to "Bill" but was not friendly to
him at all.
After finding a pitchfork handle on
the Tompsen farm that fit into the
pitchfork part found at the cache, he,
himself, was obliged to swear to the
information, but the sheriff served the
warrant.
More Carey lore was related, in
which the sheriff was the culprit.
The Williford case. in which Mr..
Goppert was defense attorney, was
discussed, Mr.. Bronze asking Mr.. Cop
pert if knowing all these things a.
sainst Mr.. Williford, was this the first
time you ever made a public charge
against Loomis." No one ever would
sell him about Loomis, complained
Goppert.
Referring to his campaign last year
Mr.. Goppert said that he did not want
to be elected if he had to work with
a man like LOOMS. He "didn't object
to electing LOOMS, if they elected a
team with him." said Mr.. Goppert. He
stated that he would have resigned
If he and Mr.. Loomis had been elected
you told them that" asked Mr..
Bronze.
eyes"
Well, they didn't take any chances
with won, did they?"
mo, sir" said Mr.. Goppert with
emphasis.
While endeavoring to cr~oss-examine
the voluable Mr.. Goppert, Mr.. Bronze
remarked with a grin that the witness
evidently had no "noes or yesses in
his lexicon"
Henry Poole was then recalled, and
told about an alleged tentative deal
for protection made between him and
A. L. Carey.
Mr.. Bronze objected to this testi-
mony Is hearsay, but Governor Ross
ruled that the testimony would be adj
mitted, and later rejected If not com