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Brothers Get-/CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE |lo seven different liquor retailers here.All seven defendants were in- j dieted by a federal grand jury in | j October of last year. Also in-1 dieted was Ellis Bonham, ident-| ified as a major Wichita Falls i whisky dealer who supplied the ! contrabrand, and J. D. Wilson’s | wife, Bobbie June Wilson.I On# Cast Dvlaytd•' A conspiracy charge against i Mrs. Wilson was dismissed by | Judge Rizley last month for lack 1 of evidence. Bonham s case has | been postponed pending filing of ; additional charges.The government alleges the Wilsons took turns making twice-weeklvO runs here from Wichita I Falls throughout the conspiracy . period. On the side, the combine | allegedly brought 143Vi gallons 1 • of wine across Red river and j ! stashed it in Cleveland county, j Seargent, Myers and Abney re- j | portedly worked for Dude Wil- j I son as delivery men. Smoote! i admitted storing quantities of' S whisky for J. D. Wilson on his i. farm northeast of Oklahoma i: *i City. Pearson told the court he i : supervised unloading the Texas j j shipments for which he received j ’ i $125 a week.[! Prior to the mass sentencing, i Hubert Gibson, attorney for the I _ I bootleggers, argued that his cli-1 ents were victims of a unique1 situation.: This is the only place in thenation that these men could be facing these charges. Gibson .Mold the court. There is a lot of whisky sold in this county i and state. If the demand weren't•r | there, none of these people would i be in the business. Whatever J their actions my clients were not attempting to deceive the federal government.Judge Rizley said he was aware of the demand for whiskyt1 in Oklahoma, adding, but nev-. ertheless the law is there. g We must presume your cli-h; ents knew their actions violated Ij i the law. he concluded. e Overshadowed by the whisky e conspiracy case was another li-. Minor sentencing by Judge Rizley | Friday. The defendant was Hy-I run Larue Barnhart, 20, of 1234(l Classen.Barnhart drew a 10-vear prison sentence for helping James I-:. Pointer steal legal whisky ’ j from the docks of l.ee-Way Mo-; tor Freight Co. here. They al-) legedlv filched 67 eases between s; November, 1056. and last June rj The whisky was consigned to military clubs at Tinker airforce base, Fort Sill, Clinton, Ardmore and Altus. Pointer, a former Lee-Way employe, has already been sentenced to a 10-ycar term.e
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Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US
Sat, Jan 04, 1958
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