BOOTLEGGERS LEFT AUTO

Clarksfork river ferry was the scene of another bootlegging automobile overhauling when on Thursday of last week Constable Dougherty arrested a man who gave the name of James Wilferd Smith. As a consequence of the arrest the sheriff’s office has in its possession a 6-cylinder Page automobile.

Two men drove onto the ferry with the machine. After crossing the river from the west, the two were in too great haste to run off the ferry and before the landing was made, with the result that the machine went into the water. Smith undertook to convey some of the consignment of booze up to the town and Constable Dougherty apprehended him with six sacks of contraband. Meanwhile Smith’s companion has gotten the automobile out and started west. He got about three miles when the automobile broke down and it was abandoned and found by the constable.

Louis Foster, a Clarksfork youth who was helping Smith carry his packs up to the village, took alarm when he found that Smith had been arrested, rode away in his father’s automobile and at last accounts was still going. It is claimed Foster was using his cary to carry the booze up from the ferry.

Smith was brought to Sandpoint and on Saturday was bound over to the district court by Probate Judge Whitaker. He furnished a cash bone of $250 for his appearance.

Smith and his unknown companion were from Spokane.

22 / R / April 20, 2023