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Five Change Pleas in Court On Rum CountrrtoArmFive well knew n Oklahoma fr.pt bootlegger- accused of conspiring to smuggle whisky in’o diy ok! a horn.i entered pleas o' ' no defence Wednesday hr-foie I’. S. district Judge RossRizley.The defendant', J D Wilson. his brother. F. W. “Dude Wil-eon. Leo Abney. Claude Myers and Jo*» Seargent. withdrew o.ar-lier innocent plea's to an indictment returned by a federalgrand ,iurv last. OctobrrThev were to be tried Wrdnes day. hut Judge Rizley ordered the trials stricken when thrbootleggers appeared in court to chance their pleas to nolo con-tendre, considered by the fedpral court as an admission of guiltJudge Rizley tentatively fixed ionteneing of the five for December 13.Wifo Goes FreeSimilar charges against J D Wilson’s wife, Bobby June, were dropped after the judge termed evidence in the ease insufficient The government's case against another defendant. Ellis Bonham. Wichita Falls. Texas, liquor dealer, was continuedFhil Douglas, assi-tant I S district attorney, said Bonham 01 will be docketed for trial shortly after tlWsfirst of the year. He is charged with two counts of eon- [ spiracy and three of importing liquor into the state The Wilsons and Abney, Myers -111 and Seargent were arrested in October after the grand jury indictment was returned They entered innocent pleas before U, S. commissioner H A Leatherman They have been free under bonds totaling J11.000 One count of the federal indictment chargpd that. J. D Wilson. his wife and bootleggers *Ci Todd Smoofe and Floyd Pear sob conspired with Bonham to ^ smuggle twice weekly shipments of illegal liquor into the Oklahoma City area.Phone Calls Counted The group is alleged to have placed 58 phone rails to Bonham's whisky store in Wichita Falls during a period from November. 1356 to last June A total of 1.337 cases of whisky was shipped into the state and sold to five bootleggers in Oklahoma City, t h e indictment charged Most of the whisky was stored on Witcher road a quarter of a mile south of NE 6,1A second count on the indictment charged the Wilsons with «r!!ing whisky wholesale without a federal tax stamp They o'so pleaded nolo contendre tothat count. Wednesdav.*The indictment cited 65 phonecalls placed earlier this year by ,7. Dude ” Wilson to Bonham’s liquor store Federal agents said carload- of whisky were brought into the state and stashed in homes in the 6000 block \ Col-tram road and on Bryant between NE 60 and 63.chcom:arsirsirriOkdiitvofIaapage]fatanbejutiu(ye20niatpcai
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Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Dec 05, 1957
Page 58
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