The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-03
THIRD EOITION
ANOTHER WHISKY RAID.
THIRTEEN OFFICIALS MAKE A DESCENT
UPON THE RICHMOND STILLS.
A Number Are Seized and Cartcd Of-Tho Crowd
Rallies and Baects q RcsCue-A Woman Leads
tho Assault-A Deputy Marshal Badly In.
JuRed - Man Shot in the Neck,

The Revenue Inspectors who made a raid upon the
unlicensed whisky stills st Port Richmond on last
thus prevented from eieo,ing any seizures, another
raid was determined upon, and the detailed 70
chief Of the Philadelphia Revenue Board led the
velt Byrns, ElDstelH. IohnsonI Donneiley Keenan,
Sail "a. BSTo9Es. and H. T. Taggar and Deputy United
As means OF removing the dstilling machinery
despatched to Kiehmond in advance. and stationed at
Bs Re Sn9 P8n % cs 10 soc clio this morn
acton, ano when our reporter arrived he found them
four Of the illeginmate disililers with which the
suburban suburban town OF Richmond fairly swarms were
found that the managers had been put upon their
special warning, so that seizures were effected
But few minutes before u o'clock. the officers
II was located in the OF No 1907 Edgmont street
sisted simply Of a low and rudeiy constrTcted build
ing of rough boards, about fifteen feet square In d.
establshment, which had the appearance Of verita.
rHw SADIE elgnteen large hogsheads we're found,
mixture OF boiling molasses and yeast. In the further
rusty and worn that it was Impossible to determine
It's composition without closer inspection than we
cared TO make. The covering OF the retort was OF
copper, and n much better state Of preservation.
found an Irishwoman in charge her hush and, she
Sn be q he oesyy; at 6s had been
removal of the STILL This was task attended by no
full headway and scalding hot, An excited crowd Of
dirty dirty men, women, and children, to the number OF
their presence obstructed the operations of the officers
portable articles in the establishments and in placing
them in a wagon for transportation.
unfortunate woman whose husband was 'Out of
very detected frame OF mind MstaGing our repo rter
for an Inspector she took him by the buttonhole and
OF which was the absence OF her lord and master,
eoeb as o9 nS begsa b S0E9 9r9ve by
IL st tune the still had been IN operation for week.
IEinkng this great show OF virtue would have some
erect, she exclaimed piteOusly:-
Wont you let that pot-hoolz 60 ?n ,.--
We had some difficulty in persuading the dlscOnSo-
late creature thatwe were not Inspector and when
away TO beset Deputy Marshal with the same re-
Everything OF a portable character having been
loaded up. the Inspectors and their vehicles, sur
halt square where they came upon another
wretched shanly about @ twelve feet square in which
other movable portions of The machinery were duly
by this time the crowd of whisky sympa hizers had
become so large numbering fully two hundred, that
"w worni" successfully extracted from one OF the
was also taken from the wagon, but the Officers
succeeded In recovering possession OF it,
emerged into salmon street which they proceeded
@e ws Eno%n to Contain s
As we passed through the bosterons crowd WHICH
various exeiam mat0ns Of the whiskypeople a great
expE&seS pE to fun yieW US sho9teG t opt
treierring TO The captured artices] d-nation p
A dirtbegrmed indiyidut of the sterner sex was
oiIhe officers He exclaimed:-
II they'd take one OF my stills ia break their
their high hats and good ciothesY2 - "''1
effect upon the crowd, several of whom shouted out
wagons a. Hd Gr a @
they paused in front Of the dstery above
women were b0lder ana more outspoken than the
ea her 6s o9F esco she Into % the Of
and by main force hurled huge still three times her
SIZE, over me sI1e OF I'd yencie TO the ground 70
adozen men Instantly seized upon 1t, and bore 1t down
the street In triumph
mond," this worthy successor to Joan OF Arc the
masculines picked up their courage, ana made
Deputy Marshal Schuyler was in charge of one Of
em & s1G on PIN hs S[9wd directed the
rafting about his head, several of them inhictng
pistol was also fired during the melee the ball
passing through the neck Of a man by the name of
we could ascertain, no one was Injured by the shot
the neighborhood of the wagons filled with flying
stones and the daylight made hideous by the shouts
The struggle lasted but moment. however and at
the end both wagons were empty. The sretorts,
seized upon by the men. aud carried down the street
With the PpSsnle % m Ins cT9TS @ oSw How
looked dangerous In their wrath that deemed It
formed MS thar we would surely come to grief II we
remained on the ground any longer.
they rallied again, after the crowd had left and took
Of the 20 ReGgR the @ to
Deputy Marshal Schuyler with the blood streaming
drug store to have them dressed. They were six in
number and of serious character The drivers Of
a short detour around the crowd and then drove for
the city At Eattling pace, both Of them st0utIy as
Thus END ed the second raid on the Richmond stills
The ofRcers did their best but they few in
numbers and were forced TO submit TO an honorable
but most decisive defeat