The sun., 1891-02-16
DEVICES OF THE THIRSTY.
HOW DRINKERS IN NO-LICENsE CON-
NECTICUT TOWNS GET RUM.

How Also some or Those who Sell It Get
CauEht-A barrel with Two Apartments
sliding Partitions and Concealed Pipes.
Norwich, Feb 15-Ths livsiiest dissipation
that Ia practiced In good old Windham county.
In northeastern Connecticut. is the church
social. and now and then q conference meet-
ing. and nowhere Is the iron.clad license law
OF the State moro sterniy and porsistentIv
prosecuted. The pillars Of the community may
tako nip behind the pantry door in their own
homes ir they are very secretive. but society
frowns on open drinking in barrooms. SO
there is never ending war between the offl-
GERS OF tho law and the vendors OF prohibited
ardent beverages who undertake to furnish
them to thirsty customers In the villages and
rural hnmlets. The contest that has been
going on for thirty years has sharpcned tho
wits OF the lawbreakera into almost phenom-
email acuteness, and extraordinary are the
artifces they use In carrying on the Illicit trade
They secrete liquors behind false panels In
their homes. in caches In tho woods that are
known to the customers. In barrels that have
false bottoms between the floor and ceiling OF
rooms. In underground recesses with pipes
leading thence to closets, and In score OF
other odd hooks. For several months Prose-
cutting Agent OsRood OF tho big village OF Put
nam. believed that Henry Duhamol was selling
liquor In the old Leavitt building on Front
street In that place. but every attempt on his
part to catch Henry at the traffic was defeated
by the willy vender. Twice he searched the
ancient building from cellar to roof and Henry
went along with him. chatting merrily. and
helping him to pry into all suspicious-lookn
places, but found nothing TO indicate that a
criminal business was being done In the
dwelling. Henry rubbed his hands. smiled
blandly. and waved the detective jovially
pt of In hons Than ha I'M od f,ffi
vainly searched u nneighborinG building. hoping
to discover q barrel OF whiskey with . pipe
leading underground into Bnhamers house;
f psSp - drive to h a
poured With rosy faces and q iaunty sten 4.
stars sssk ss I l"ak ooers @ Park aud % HrneS
tho The %G shadow dc S Of ths Leavitt BUILDING and pretty
soon man carving a pail s!iIped out OF 2
nS Ssss R aas
,herea,tts;r The, tho officers followed him in rush.
Ing tosether By the dim lssSt oil o amn, ana IN
lifted on stand. Ohicers Pnik and Arnold
examine the onrsl a M q once once turned the sriEot got
ri riussed @ ana iisappoi inted at ilrst and then a
bright idea, flashed into Arnods brain. He
etrated Duhamel's $ trick. Tho barrel had been
sawed in two. tight diia,phragm i,tI. Of wood in.
halves skilfnlly Joined together again. A stout
hoop had been driven about the middle OF the
psrs ws4s w4h n thu ao hs %eg hS
barrel was CIDER: In the upper one. fine old rye
wyhiskey. The upper half opened on hidden
on the same day the same officers had eaual
success IN ,, raidnG 81 M Ell ~, 9eorge's place % on
searched tho whole house without finding
signs ol any C criminal IN work or there. re anu We're
IN e snd
into the wool he pushed the panel easily and
behind. the board: The hidden, chamber was
stood hotties Of whiskey and beer. glasses. and
fhsr en- 81 %
quarts m H't ot Bourbon whiskey. >'' '''' N''' ~
fore Justice Cfesebro. He pleaded guilty to
law, and was Snej $50 and costs. ". which he
PAID st. George is III and viii attend
Park and Lonsden OF Putnam raile,l Steve
Ryan's house IN Rhodesvile, which Il kept by
GREATNESS mess neer that the officers were
coming. and when Park and LonRden rushed
nG mis- nS
John Paine. the ilsh man Il Putnam, drove
tin horn Justify. and sold fish TO every one. for
every body said that John Pane was the hon
Agent. OsGood noted that Paine's trips 10 the
historic rural town Of Pomfret were incxplieA-
5 nH ss ,he sh S
that ofiicer decided that Paine $ actions were
ieisprey along teSard Poniret oeep SHs Gsf far
stopped him snd ,d!,,s ssarched ths shining tsl
locker in the front part OF the cart the officer
,n got five quarts Of ThiSkey h and lot Of empty
fined. although he remarked 10 court specta-
amt allowed to make = honest living"
the house OF a sly old offender against the
liauor law for an, hour or more and found no
Went down stairs and burrowei In and ntod-
aed the cellar He finally penetrated into a
Earth eg Beyond a the Ae cellar ea walls and 'ni neatly
tho hidden department. was big hat stone
At the town election last fall Stafford Springs
IN Tolland county voted to license no more So
business. The town agent is not perm! tied 10
ey al h
needs the liauor Tor medicinal rnrposss:
tie Gsussis's Stafford sprlnga a'U nsed seee to
sell very little alcoholic liquor on doctors pre-
1oI 1e SRo
had suddenly and mys;eriously fallen III. pre-
asking for rum. gin. brandy. and whiskey.
;ya!Ids, N. Mccarthy, Stafford spripes's sa-
and ,ho laid in fifteen gallons Of rum. gin.
whiskey and brandy before the new rule be-
came n law. and he put 1t In place that he
thought the license officers, would never. find.
hut in lees than Q week Prosecuting Agent
George v. Eaton had the whole OF McCarihy's
A CURIOUS violation OF the license law was ac-
cidentally discovered by officers at Hartford one
day last waek. Daniel j. Scannell Of 1Ol Com
mercs street who has 90; license. had been ar.
but the case against him was not sustained
end b.: was discharged. Theroupon his sister.
Joining scannel's. and has no liGense TO sell
rum in collrsion With her brother. In examin.
a pipe ran uniersronnd from his saloon into iaH a
snug little closet in Mrs. Gihson's kitchen. SO.
really two saloons were doing business on the
strength Of scannsIl's; license; Il Mrs: Glib:
peculiar signal. certain, kind Of rap. and
Scannel chucied his ond OF tho pipo Into u
ruyD harral ann Mira (fibSOn MI in mad rnm I