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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman and former Warden Wesley Westbrook face imprisonment for contempt after allowing bootleggers Lake and Terry Druggan to use Cook County Jail as a base and visit cabarets during Prohibition violation incarceration. Hoffman gets 30 days in DuPage Jail; Westbrook 4 months in DeKalb Jail, starting Monday.
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Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman and Former Warden Wesley Westbrook must go to jail today on contempt of court charges for allowing Lake and Terry Druggan, two Chicago millionaire bootleggers, to visit Chicago cabarets while they were supposed to be in jail for violating the federal dry act and for allowing them to use the Cook county jail as their business office in disposing of their bootleg wares.
Hoffman was sentenced by Federal Judge Wilkerson to serve thirty days in the Du Page county jail at Wheaton. Westbrook was sentenced to serve four months in the De Kalb county jail at Sycamore.
Hoffman has instructed Deputy Warden Charles Peters and Assistant Sheriff George Webster to act in his place. Hoffman declared that as he was not sentenced by an Illinois court to serve a sentence in the jail of the county of which he is sheriff for a criminal offense, he will refuse to vacate his office and allow Coroner Oscar Wolff to take his place during his absence.
Though the stay granted Hoffman and Westbrook expires today, it is not expected they will start serving sentence until Monday, as the commitment papers have not as yet been made out.
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Stay Expires Today, Serving Sentence Starting Monday
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hoffman sentenced to 30 days in du page county jail at wheaton; westbrook sentenced to 4 months in de kalb county jail at sycamore; stay expires today but commitment papers not yet made out, expected to start serving monday
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Sheriff Peter M. Hoffman and Former Warden Wesley Westbrook must go to jail today on contempt of court charges for allowing Chicago millionaire bootleggers Lake and Terry Druggan to visit Chicago cabarets while supposed to be in jail for violating the federal dry act and for allowing them to use the Cook county jail as their business office in disposing of their bootleg wares. Hoffman has instructed Deputy Warden Charles Peters and Assistant Sheriff George Webster to act in his place and declared he will refuse to vacate his office as he was not sentenced by an Illinois court for a criminal offense. Though the stay granted expires today, it is not expected they will start serving sentence until Monday as commitment papers have not yet been made out.