'“TO HELL WITH LUNBIIT
IS STATEMENT CREDITED
TO GILL BY BILLINGSLY
i Bootlegger In Describing Hov He Paid Uribe to Mayor
of Seattle, Tells How Chief Beckingham l rged ( are
For Fear of District Attorney Lundin.
(lb I'nited State* Cable)
SEATTLE. Saturday. March 10.—Logan Billingsley’s
tale of paying a $4,000 bribe to Mayor Hi Gill and the de
tails of bow the bribe was tendered and accepted, which
was to insure safety for the bootleggers, were given in
the most sensational manner yesterday, in the trial of the
mavor and others charged in the indictments brought
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against the alleged whisky ring.
Billingsley said that the money paid to the mayor at
the time of the now famous “compromise with the boot
leggers when their papers, which had been seized by the
police in the raid on the “Night and Day * drug store, were
returned to them.
v After detailing the events which led up to his second
visit to the office of the chief where he also found Mayor
(till, Billingsley described the actual payment of the $4,-j
000 in currency, which he declared occurred on the after
noon of August 30.
With the chief out of the room, Billingsley declared
that without comment the money was paid over.
“I took the money out of my pocket and laid
it on the desk in front of the mayor," said Bill
ingsley, “and he picked it up and put it in his
pocket.
When the witness came to tnis dramatic climax of the
long line of sensational testimony, the crowd sat breath
lessly taking in every word.
His testimony of events immediately following the
payment of the bribe were equally sensational.
He said that after he had given the money to the
mavor. Chief Beckingham returned to the room and op
ened a conversation regarding the return of the papers.
“The chief said that if all the correspondence
was returned at that time there might he
trouble." said Billingsley.
# “The mayor told me to take the papers away
and destroy them.
“The chief then suggested that only a part of
them be destroved.
“To hell with that,' (iill shouted. Make the
papers and go.' " was Billingsley's testimony in
which he repeated the mayor's alleged words
verbatim.
“The chief 1 think then reminded the mayor
that District Attorney Lundin had subponenaed |
the papers. This seemed to anger the mayor,
the witness continued, "and his linal reply was:
“To hell with Lur.din, take the papers and |
get out.”
One humorous incident developed during the morn
ing session yesterday when Billingsley told of his deal
ings with the members of the Seattle detective depart-!
ment, whom ho declared grafted on a sort of royalty
basis, receiving so much for the liquor they spotted com
ing to Seattle.
‘i paid detectives I’eyser, l'oonnan, .McLen
nan and Doom $700, on a basis of $10 tor each
barrel of whisky they discovered coming into Se
attle,” said Billingsley, and then added:
“But I slipped many by them."
In closing his direct testimony, Billingsley told how
Dr. Matthews had summoned him to his study and in
formed him that if he did not reveal how he had bribed
Gill, he, .Matthews would send Bellingsley to the peni
tentiary.
“Matthews declared he knew that I had paid $7,500 to
Gill,” said Billingsley.
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(lly United States Cable)
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JUNEAU.—Several changes in the
force of the United States marshal
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I, two new deputies were added, and
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federal jail prison.
Paul V. Woodhouse, who has been
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