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Moffett, Oklahoma’s. l:n• ■ iRaided£1IiSaid To Be Direct Result otTo Washingtonliquor situation. In the petition it was stated that “city, county and state officers” knew of conditions and weredoing nothing to remedy them. Later,after politics in tHe sheriff’s race w r■Fort Smith, Arkansas, June 10. Federal officers took a step toward cleaning up Moffett last Saturday. Oklahoma and Arkansas federalagents conducted a joint raid on the little town whose troubles over alleged violations of the prohibition act have been aired in recent weeks,i arrested eight persons and confiscated several gallons of liquor.“The raid was a direct result of thepetition of 64 Moffett citizens to Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement,” Deputy Prohibition Administrator Hiram Sutterfield ofcharged by County Attorney H. D. Pitchford, who resigned May 29, Krumsiek and Mann, saying they were speaking for the petitioners, included federal officers in their denunciation.W. B. Wall, successor to PitchfordV w I- I-........ .as county attorney and Sheriff John E. Johnston of Sequoyah county, said they considered the agitation raisedSam J. Pointer was a business visitor in Muskogee and Pryor the early part of the week... .......... 4 «- ... rNOTICE BY PUBLICATION11State of Oklahoma, County of Sequoyah.In District Court William H. Fine and Flora I. Fine, Plaintiffs, vs. The heirs known and unknown, immediate and remote of Calvin D. Fine, deceased, Defendants1.The State of Oklahoma, to the heirs known and unknowh, immediate andby Krumsiek and Mann political, in, remote of Calvin D. Fine, Deceased:that Krumsiek was a candidate for»mayor.Krumsiek Denies ReportThe charge that I am a candidate for mayor of Moffett is a lie,” Krumsiek said Saturday. “I am not now and never have been anxious to be mayor of Moffett, and when I ran before it was because my friends insisted that I do so, in order that the boot-Said defendants will take notice that they have been sued in the above named court by William H. Fine and Flora I. Fine, claiming to be the solef1iJ131loggers would not be unopposed InFort Smith said Saturday. . ,, , M ,R. O. Burrough of Fort Smith, Red- ] t!i®f ef^ort. to take 6Ver the towncloud Fleetwood, J. M. Hinyard and Lafayette Hinyard of Moffett were arrested on a charge of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition lawsand Lewis Amos, Leroy Fleetwood,Mann said Saturday he wished torepeat that Sheriff John E. Johnston■had told him in the presence of wit-.nesses that he was seriously consider-■ing resigning when the C. M. GayMrs. Leroy Fleetwood and June Ma-' election contest was settled. Gay, athan were arrested on charges ofpossession.present a federal prohibition enforcement officer in the eastern OklahomaThe eight defendants were taken to Sallisaw for a preliminary hearing befofre United States Commissionerdistrict, claims he was elected as Sequoyah county sheriff. His contest case is to be decided in the OklahomaJames W. Breedlove. Each made bondrfor $500 to appear at a hearing at 10 o’clock next Saturday morning.Outside Agents at WorkFor three days a party of federal ..enforcement .officers ::had...been securing evidence of prohibition law violations in Moffett, according to Breedlove. These were W. L. Zent Musko-wsupreme court.Pitchford resigned soon after a county court of inquiry into the liquor situation at Moffett was conducted.gee, in charge of the district enforce-.ment agency; C. W. Scott and J. H. Vickrey of Tulsa, and Bill Henderson of Stigler, none of whom had operated in Moffett before, and who were not known there as officers.As county attorney, he examined the witnesses, which included 45 of the 64 who signed-the Moffett -petition, but no warrants were issued on the testimony taken.Moffett has been known for severalThe warrants for the Moffett raid■ •were obtained... from United StatesrCommissioner Bagwell at Poteau.At noon Saturday, Sutterfield, accompanied by Agent W. W. Sebourn of Fort Smith and Agents Joe Morgan and U. Pollan of 'Oklahoma, joined.« v, i . . , mthe other officers an^ quietly, went about the work of railing the placesyears as Little Juarez, and charges that the prohibition laws were violated flagrantly in the little town have beenmade with frequency throughout the last three years, during which Moffett attracted national attention forits alleged lawlessness.under suspicion.Upon reaching Moffett* the officer: divided into groups and began a systematic search, upon the information furnished by under-cover agents operating in Moffett for-the last week. These men already had purchasedliquor from all the men arrested Sat-.urday, according to Sutterfield.While officers approached homes ofthese people, Sutterfield said, screens.were latched and the occupants of the houses poured out what appeared to be whiskey, into kitchen sinks. In one case, he said, a woman broke a bottle over a bedpost, the bottle believed tohave contained whiskey.There was no violence, however, Sutterfield said and the raid wasaquiet one. The six arrested surrendered without protest.Beer Poured Out,Officers poured out 20 gallons of• rchoc beer at the home of Amos, theyw -said, saving a sample for evidence. At other places, they poured out what was apparently liquor, from quart bottles and gallon bottles. Sampleswere preserved from each quantity of liquor seized. , .According to Breedlove, the officerssaid they found a bottling plant at the Amos place, with evidence that ifhad been used extensively. A sample of liquor, believed to be home brew Was seized and sent to Oklahoma Cityi _ifor analysis, he said. ....Breedlove also said that he under stood the conspiracy charge against four of the defendants was the*, re-suit of renting a house in Moffett.from a .man named Will Evans wherfwhiskey sales were alleged to have,.been made. He said that J. M. Hinyard is believed to have rented the houseand that it is charged that Redeloud Fleetwood paid the rent.i“We were at a disadvantage on account of the publicity attending the forwarding of the petition to Washington,” declared Suttjerfield, “andso we were unable to get at the larger“ ■sources of liquor in Moffett. We were able to seize only small quantities.“All the publicity of the last few. ..weeks In regard to Moffett made our work harder for us and the resultssmaller,” he said.Petition Was CirculatedFred[ W. Krumsiek and Harry Mann of Moffett circulated the petition toiAndrews asking for relief from thekI HAVE 300 ACRES OF COTTC■ ■■ . . iWANT A JOB CALL AT REAGEiWE WILL TAKE YOU TO THEAND ONE-HALF MILES SOUTHGOOD CHOPPtt▲•*.AT REAGER-FRYESALLISAW
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Sequoyah County Democrat
Sallisaw, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Jun 11, 1926
Page 5
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Clipped by
Rick E.
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