Deny Whiskey Charge Held to Grand Jury
Henry and Allen Dyer Waive Examination
Henry and Allen Dyer of Odle Creek who is charged with having untaxed whiskey and 50-gallon copper still in their possession, waived examination and were held to U.S. Grand Jury when arraigned before U.S. Commissioner J. F. Johnley. They furnished $1,000 bonds and were released.[1]
Oscar and Norman Blevins are to Get a Hearing on July 22
Oscar and Norman Blevins of Nile township pleaded not guilty when arraigned before U.S. Commissioner J.F. Johnley on charges of carrying on a distiller’s business without a license, possessing an untaxed whiskey, and properly designed for its manufacture. They will be given a hearing on July 22. Unable to furnish bond in the sum of $1,000 each they were committed to the Ross county jail.[2]
Bowen Not Guilty
Henry Bowen who was arrested in Ironton several days ago on a charge of possessing untaxed whiskey was acquitted by a jury yesterday. He was arrested by Portsmouth Prohibition agents.[3]
Two-Year Term is Drawn on Liquor Charge
Because he chose a jury trial, Earl Wilhelm, 35 years old farmer at 5673 Prosser Street, Elmwood Place was given a sentence of two years in the Federal Reformatory, Chillicothe, by District Judge Robert R. Nevin yesterday.
The jurors out but a few minutes found him guilty under all five charges of an indictment naming him and his brother, Elbert Wilhelm, 33 farmer Mellwod Street, Winton Place at whose home a still, mash, and liquor were found by Federal agents last summer.
Elbert pleaded guilty prior to Earl’s trial yesterday. Earl’s defense was that he merely was a visitor at his brother’s home.
In a passing sentence, Judge Nevin said it was his opinion that Earl would have fared better had he followed his brother’s example.
Elbert was sentenced to a year and a day in the reformatory. Another defendant convicted yesterday on an indictment charging two violations of internal revenue laws was Harry Shaw, Friendship, Ohio. He was sentenced to two and one-half years in Federal Prison and fined $500.
However, upon his attorney’s plea that his young wife and baby were in the courtroom and would have to be taken home, Judge Nevin vacated the sentence and fine so Shaw could go on bond until Thursday afternoon.
Erwin Lipp, 48 laborers, Route No. 3, Loveland, formerly a Prohibition Agent attached to a Magistrate’s Court at Montgomery, and Edwin Root, truck driver, 419 South Fifth Street, Hamilton, charged with possession of a still, mash, and liquor in a camp near Loveland last summer were sentenced to 15 months and one year and one day, respectively, after they pleaded guilty.
James H. Cleveland and Robert E. Marshall, Assistant United State District Attorneys, informed the court both men had been arrested before. Lipp, they stated, was convicted in 1921 and again in 1922 for prohibition law violations. Root arrested in 1933 for counterfeiting, received a sentence of one year and one day in prison, they said.[4]
Prison Term Meted Out
Henry Dyer, Friendship, Ohio, and his son Allen Dyer accused of having possessed an unregistered still, mash, and illicit whiskey, in violation of the internal revenue laws, entered pleas of guilty. The father was sentenced to serve one year and one day in the Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio. The son was given a suspended sentence of two years in the same institution.[5]
Confiscate Still
Federal agents here, operating in Lawrence County, Ohio, destroyed a 60-gallon still, which they uncovered in Boneyard Hollow near Ironton. No arrests were made.[6]
[1] Portsmouth Daily Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, 5 July 1936, page 1
[2] Portsmouth Daily Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, 14 July 1936, page 3
[3] Portsmouth Daily Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, 17 July 1936, page 3
[4] The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 28 October 1936, page 8
[5] The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 28 October 1936, page 8
[6] Portsmouth Daily Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, 27 Dec. 1936, page 7
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