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SIMMONS HELD ON MANN ACT CHARGE TODAYAlleged Bootlegger Jumps from Frying Pan Into Fire.TOTAL BOND IS $2,000Arrested as He Is Leaving Commissioner’s Court from Hearing.Bound over to the federal grand jury on a liquor ^charge and his bond set^it $1,000, Harry Simmons, alleged to be Bettendorf's master* bootlogger. ws*3 propelled from the frying pan into the hre as he was leaving the court of U. S. Commissioner A. G. Bush this morning.“Just a minute, please/’ said Deputy V. S. Marshal T. Fl Kenney as Simmons, accompanied by hLs attorney. Carl Lambach, was /stepping over the threshold, there is a warrant here for your arrest on a White Slave charge”. #It’s news to me/* ’said Sim* raons.Seated'ofice more in Commissioner Bush's cubby-hole courtroom, Simmons was placed under another bond or $1,000 and iiis hearing set for Aug. 23. Attorney Lambach will represent Simmons at the Mann Act hearing.Information charging Simmons with violation of the Mann Act was swoyh out yesterday afternoon by Mike Kirby, of Rock Island, who claims that Simmons transported his wife, Mrs; Bernice Clark Kirby, to Bettendorf and. that he has been living there with her for several months.Assistant U. S. District Attorney John C. DeMar will be in charge of the ^prosecution when evidence against Simmons is presented in commissioner’s court Simmons has pleaded not guilty''.The man was first arrested in Bettendorf by Marshal Jack Kraclit and Federal Profcibitioa Agent R. E. Muhs, who obtained evidence of liquor sales against him thru Mrs. Hazel O'Neal, a colored woman who this morning stated she purchased a pint or moonshine whisky from Simmons’ place on the river front. Simmons was arraigned before Mr. Bush last Saturday, and which time his bond was set at $500 and his case continued until today.Marshal Kracht asserts that Simmons has been selling liquor to negroes and foreigners at Bettendorf, and that several near-riots have 'been staged by hootch-crazed shop employes- - . ; *The new warrant for Simmons came as a complete surprise even to his attorney. Government authorities maintained complete se* crecy in regard to the white slave action. as it was planned to arrest Simmons when he was given hearing today.I
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Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1922
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