Grand Jury to Probe Uni Rum Raid
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Grand Jury to Probe Uni Rum Raid
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Date
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16 February 1932
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Description
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Note the different reasons for the raid. Officer Charles Davis makes it seem like a raid simply to get Williams. Wilson says that it was a joint effort between prohibition officers UNL Administration designed for the "mental effect" it would have. This motivation might be questionable. How much mental effect does a raid in an almost empty coliseum in which one ex-student is arrested really have?
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Transcription
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RAID DANCE AT U.'S REQUEST
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striving for that effect rather than for apprehension of the campus violator and confiscation of liquor."
He described the raid as a "minor affair," and said the very smallness of the amount of liquor seized "makes apparent the fact that little drinking was being done." Conditions on the campus, he said, are "good rather than bad."
"The university administration has taken cognizance of this condition (of violation) and has worked with my men for some time toward its elimination," he said.
FIVE FREED
Five persons taken to the Lincoln police station with Williams were released later without charges against them.
They are Lowry C. Wimberly, associate professor of English at the university; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Eliason and two young women. Prof. Wimberly is editor of the midwest culture magazine, Prairie Schooner. Williams formerly was business manager. Eliason is instructor in the English department.
"So far as Prof. Wimberly and the others are concerned," said Mr. Wilson, "it is unfortunate that they were on hand. I have no official interest in them."
Williams, in Lincoln, refused, on advice of his attorney, to talk. He said he felt "sorry" for his girl friend, Viola Butts of Omaha, one of the two girls taken to the station.
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Source
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Author: Staff Correspondent, Omaha Bee-News
Title: "Grand Jury to Probe Uni Rum Raid"
Periodical: Omaha Bee-News
volume: 61
pages: 1, 2
16 February 1932
Nebraska State Historical Society, film 071 Omlbn 2872, copy and reuse restrictions apply, http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/services/refrence/use_policy.pdf
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