Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 29, 1922, Page 10

| | — en a ee wePRes8ag oPsnaiumklodogs RMMe Resi ae na *e don TB oat ek Bae PAGE TEN G7 CONVICTIONS: | ARE SECURED IN CASPER CLEANUP County Riche- vy $6,000 as) Result of Fines Imposed | on Law Offenders H Taken in Raids. With a list of 67 convictions in beth | district and justice court, ot of aj total of 70 cases tried, the county attorney's office, under the direction | of M. W. Purcell and with the assist-| ance of John H. Casey. deputy prose- cutor, and Edwin Barrett, deputy! county attorney, has established an| enviable record in the war that ts being continuously waged against lav | violators here. “Stuch of the success we have at-| tained.” said Mr. Purcell, “ts due to| the fact that the c‘osest harmony/ exists between this office and be- tween this office and between Sheriff) Joe I. Marquis’ department, In the last analysis if the evidence which| determines the case was not forth- coming from Sheriff Marquis and his assistants we would not be able to prosecute successfully. His efforts have been marked with utmost hon- esty 2nd success.” Of the 67 convictions 46 of the cases were tried in juatice court dur- ing the past month and 21 in district court. Besides meting out seritences in many of tha cases the county is richer by nearly $6,500 of which over; $4,090 in fines came from wholesale convictions before Judge W, E. Tubbs and the remainder from fines assessed in district court totaling over $2,300. Of the 46 cases tried and convicted ‘m justice court 23, or half the num- ber. resulted from liquor violations, The victims of this activity tnelude M{. Wilde, J. Parsons, J, Stanton, J. Pike, Mary Romaine, B, C. Chariton, James Moore, J. Moyers, F. Jaffa. Jim Paris, Ollie Watts, A. Terrigue, Jack Dobbins, Mrs. Albert Bendt, Jack Faragher, Guy Peebles, John Hulse, J, R. Fitzwilliams, Tony Bal- gon, W. R. Hylan, D. McLeod, Ole Nelson, and A. Verrier. GembDling cases were next fn onm- ber of justice court convictions, 15} persons paying fines on th's charge. | ‘Those convicted on this offense in-| clude Ed Hively, R, F. Burbett, Scott Paterson, E. C. McWherter, Jack Gre- fory, D. F. Clancy, G, Houstalakis, Andrew Merinos, Tony Metros, Roy Williamson, William Emerson, D. Sel- man, Edward George, Eddie Berg and Tom Foley. The remainder of the justice court procedr're included three petty lar neny cases in which R, D. Crosswaite, | J. D, Conner and H. F, Crosswaite were the victims; R Cantrill, | vagrant, and one assault case in| awaich J, Brown was held. During the same period seven liquor or gambling cases were prosecuted in| district court. The defendants and termination of cases follow: Arthur Roessel, liquor 200 and costs; Steve Samis, gambling, 300 and costs; Christ | Angelos, gambling, $400 and costs: | Cc. W. Ausenbaugh, gaming, $400 | and costs; Carl Miller, liquor, $400 and costs: Rolly Gosney, $500 and costs;| R, H, Marshall, sentence to be passed, Penitentiary sentences were handed out in district court in the following five cases: Frank Basque. burglary two to three years; Grover Berry, grand tar- ceny, ive to six years; Manuel Se- peda, robbery, two to three years; Jack Silver, burglary, one year to 12 months; A. White, grand tareeny, one year to 13 months, In‘addition to these criminal metions abatement and injunction cases were prosecuted successfully in eight in- stances. The places under ban in- clude the Mills hotel; Amaa Terrigne and Mary Horton house; Jim Paris, Mary Romain and Tony Metros” place; Jim Paris and Francis McCoy house: Babe Reynolds’ place; John Faragher house and a building owned by G. Houstalakis and A. Merinos. Even this activity extended over a period of little more than a menth does not entirely represent the suc- cesses of the county law enforcement agencies as a number of actions, i cmding many lquor and dope cases, were turned over directly to the fed- eral authorities after the cases had been worked up and arrests effected here, *The record of activity is conclu- sive,” said Mr. Pureell. “The far- reaching range of crimes and consist- ent. upholding of law and order is ‘Dut an introduction to the sweep that we are jointly pushing to rid Casper and Natrona county of violations of all kinds, “We have never fafled to proceed in any case that we have had called to our attention and we have always had the utmost success and close co- operation in our dealings with Sheriff Marquis and his force.” It is'worthy of note that conviction on gambling and liquor cases in dis- trict court was a thing almost unheard of here before the advent of the rig- erous prosecution which Mr. Purcell uses in combatting violations of this} Kind, The day of taking an appeal) from lower courts with knowledge that the case could not be success- fully prosecuted has passed, is Mr. Purcell"s belief. “In getting a lst of convictions,” he said, “never once, to our knowl- edge, have we treated a defendant unfairly. “We have not railroaded cases for the sake of getting convic- tions, but we have prosecuted fear- lessly where we krew there was breach of law.” [SATURDAY NIGHT Tues., ‘Wed. and Thurs. 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