The weekly soliphone., 1915-01-22
LARGE QUANTITY OF LIQUOR DESTROYED
O'Neal Breaks S4O Bottles and Permits Liquid Contents
 to Flow in Gutter.
(From Wednesdays Daily Press

significance for Paragouldians this morning when a small rivulet of con fiscated whiskey was turned loose in gutter in front of the office of Esq. A. B. Hays and wended it's way to the storm sewer at the corner of Emerson and Pruet streets. Curious spectators had set fire to the liquid and for nearly a city block the flames land fumes sent out an odor that did credit to young distillery.
 Some few Paragouldians who make no secret of the fact that they occasionally flirt with John Barley corn stood in speeches. awe as Con- stable Lee O'Neal, acting as execu tioner, broke the two hundred and forty pints of "Old Dominick" and permitted the bottled brew of the Imperial Imp of Perdition to seek the level of it's victims in the gutter and find it's legitimate terminus in the sewer.
 1 The contraband booze was packed N two large barrels and one small barrel, the large barrels containing ninety-six pints each and the half barrel being the receptacle for forty eight pints. The liquor was sent out by D. Canale & Co.,, of Memphis, and was consigned to fictitious addresses at Brookland. It was seized in Par agould Monday at midnight when the Femphis-St. Louis passenger train unloaded it's express in Paragould. The express messenger refused to put the shipment off at Brookland be- cause the Iron Mountain has no ex- piess agent at that point. In deliv ering express shipments the Iron Mountain brings the consignments to Paragould and transfers them to the Cotton Belt which road takes them to Brookland the following morning.
 The authorities have ascertained tha. parties from Paragould went to Memphis Monday morning, bought the whisky and ordered 1t shipped by express that night to the fictitious parties at Brookland. That evening a wagon and team was sent from Paragould to get the whisky with the intention of bringing it to this city during the night. One of the parties who was interested in the shipment and who went to Memphis and m the purchase got off the passenger train at Brookland to accompany the caravan to Paragould. He and the driver of the team pleaded with the express messenger to deliver the three barrels to them at Brookland that night, but the agent refused to do so. Telephone messages were sent to parties in Paragould who were interested in the shipment ad- yising them to get it out of the ex- press office before the officers dis covered the presence of the booze here. but the officers who met the train immediately seized the consign- ment and about daylight called Esq. Hays to his office and had the nee essary papers issued. The whisky was then taken to the county Jail and held until today. No owner having appeared to claim the ship ment the court ordered it destroy ed.
 It has been hGown for some time that certain parties were shipping in large quantities of liquor from Pop lar Bluff and from Memphis, con- signing the goods to small stations north and south of Paragould. Usually there is a wagon waiting to transport the wet goods to Paragould where it is peddled out among those who patronize the bootleggers. The | tercept these shipments, but had sue ceede in making no captures of any consequence until yesterday morning It is said that one bootlegger who operates here has received about seven hundred pints of liquor from a Poplar Bluff firm since December 1, 1914. It is further stated by tho officers that this party has four ol five local characters who peddle fol him. Frequently these parties go tc Poplar Bluff and bring back th' whisky in suit cases, and on severa
 occasions the suit cases have beer captured and the liquor destroyed.
 It is believed few more haul
 like that made yesterday will resul in such serious loss to either tn liquor firms or to the local partie J-A ~.~1hassnp tho e0p "a ha n