Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24
RARE OLD BOURB. DISAPPEARS
CASE OF LIQUOR KEPT FOR ME-
DECIMAL PURPOSES.
Mysteriously Removed From Senate
Office Building and Strict Search
Fails to Discover It.

Lost, strayed or stolen-perhaps even
swallowed. for 1t has absolutely disap-
peared-one case or more Of rare old
Kentucky bourbon from the room in the
Senate office building occupied by the
Senate committee on expenditures in the
Department of Justice, of which Sena-
tor William o. Bradley Is chairman.
This solemn announcement, made in a
low breath by the man who discovered
the loss, sent a thrill through the Capt.
toll police force which careful investiga-
ton for period of ten days by expe-
rienced sleuths of the force has failed to
allay. When the whisky disappeared,
where it is. or who is responsible for its
removal has not yet been learned, al
though Supt. Werner of the Senate office
building and it's eighteen bluecoated
guardians have utilized all their powers
of detection to find out.
1t is equally mysterious why the whisky
was where it was and where it now Is
not. Both Senator Bradley and HI. S.
Irwin. clerk to his committee, are out
of the city and were when the whisky
disappeared, as also were Senator's Nor
ris Brown of Nebraska, Henry p. Burn
ham of New Hampshire, Joseph w. Bal
ley of Texas and ISidor Rayner of Mary
land, the remaining members Of the COM
mittee Thus no one could be found who
could say with authority just why there
ever was a case or SO of mellow old bour-
bon included in the inventory of articles
in the committee room.
Mild Suggestion.
A meek, pale-faced Capitol policeman
volunteered the information that per-
haps it was kept there for medicinal pur-
poses: but whether it was or not it is
and no ono knou-a
Not since 1903 has there been a drop Of
liquor sold in the United States Capitol
building, and by authority of the same
edict of the two houses of Congress none
is allowed to be sold in the House and
Senate office buildings. The whisky
which has vanished therefore was evil
IDENTIFY kept for free distribution in cases
of emergency. Naturally those who are
anticipating such emergencies in future
are deeply concerned over the loss of the
chief asset of this philanthropic dispen-
sary.
While there have been small thefts
committed at the Capitol during the sum-
mer, when the police force was reduced
by reason of summer vacations, which
likewise could not be traced, but were
numerous throngs Of visitors from other
places, never before has SO serious a
loss as a case or so of good old Ken
lucky bourbon been reported to Capt.
y. Z
or to Police Clerk w. P. Hall.
The Senate Office building has been in
the hands of painters and decorators
during the summer, and is now. but 1t
is positively asserted by those who could
be seen that none of them liked whisky.
or would drink it under any circum-
stances, not even to save life.
Whisky Is Gone, Nevertheless.
But that case or more of good old
Kentucky bourbon isn't where it used
to be, and when the good senators of
the committee on expenditures In the
Department of Justice return with the
December SHOWS they will find a portion
of their hospitality to distressed fellow
creatures curtailed at least to the extent
of the mellow firewater for which Ken
lucky is famous.
News of the loss is being carefully
guarded and suppressed by those in au-
thority at the Capitol and the Senate
Office building. No one would talk upon
the subject. Elliott Woods, superinten-
dent of the Capitol building, when talked
with over the telephone, referred The
Star reporter to Capt. Megrew. Capt.
Megrew was not in his Office and Police
Clerk Hall had q faraway look in his
eyes when questioned upon the subject,
to say nothing of a very poor memory
of the circumstance, If such thing
really occurred.
1t was the meek, pa1e-faced policeman
who let the cat out of the bag, and he
did so. he said, because he was so wor-
ried, you know.