TEACHERS DENY KNOWLEDGE OF SEIZED LIQUOR
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TEACHERS DENY KNOWLEDGE OF SEIZED LIQUOR
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Date
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15 February 1932
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Description
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Editorial Note:Note that a subheadline announces that Wimberly and Eliason were not facing charges. The University still found them guilty of something. Note also that the professors claimed they were in the room with the liquor for ten minutes before the raid. That is quite a long time to be debating what to do.
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TEACHERS DENY KNOWLEDGE OF SEIZED LIQUOR
Alan G. Williams Admits Owning Booze Taken at University Party.
NO CHARGES FACE TWO FACULTY MEN
Wimberly and Eliason Taken In Raid On Coliseum.
Dr. L. C. Wimberly, English professor and N. E. Eliason, English instructor at the University of Nebraska who were arrested when police raided the university coliseum late Saturday night at the conclusion of an all-university party, Monday morning denied any connection with liquor seized there and declared that they had discovered the liquor but a few minutes before police arrived.
Alan G. Williams, prominent non-fraternity leader and a member of the Innocents society before his graduation from the university last spring, is at liberty under $1,000 bond pending a federal grand jury investigation of the raid. Williams, according to Assistant U. S. Attorney Robert Van Pelt, admits ownership of the small quantities of beer and wine and a pint of whisky found when city, county and federal officers raided a small store room off the dance floor.
Other arrested were Mrs. Eliason, Lucille Mills, 20, graduate student living at 2812 Everett street, and Viola Butts, 26, former student. Miss Butts is the co-ed whom Williams sponsored for May queen in the 1930 campus election.
Hold Three Men In Jail
All three women were booked at police headquarters and released immediately but the three men were not released until Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon Williams was taken before U. S. Commissioner H. J. Whitmore and arraigned on a charge of illegal possession of liquor. Van Pelt said the matter would be laid before a grand jury which convenes in March.
Wimberly and Eliason had been selected, along with several other members of the faculty to chaperone the party, but they were the only chaperones to appear during the evening, they stated. It was in the discharge of their duties as
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Source
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Author: Staff, The Lincoln Star
Title: "Teachers Deny Knowledge of Seized Liquor"
Periodical: The Lincoln Star
volume:
pages: 1, 9
15 February 1932
Nebraska State Historical Society, film 071 L63s 2233, copy and reuse restrictions apply, http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/services/refrence/use_policy.pdf
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