The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-24
Parties Of Officers Visit. Three
Suspected Places
About Six
O'clock.
BEER AT ALL OF THEM
Five Kegs Found at saIzers-SmaIl-
err Amounts at Hardin's and
stack's-PIans Made
in Morning.

menus were cOQQucLoQ SATURDAY even
ing, when the places of George Sal
ger. Jerry M. Stack and Luther Har-
din were raided by details of police,
led by Chief Of Police Charles H.
Hennemann, Assistant Chief ]. W..
Pearson and Captain William Wilson.
Five kegs of beer were found at Sal.
Zer's, two of them on Ice; one key
at Stacks and one key at Hardin ).
The liquor was Immediately taken e.,
police headquarters where it will be
held until the trials Of the accused
men are over.
The plans for the raid were made
early Saturday morning by Commits
sioner Hflpert of the department of
public safety, and Chief of Police
Henneman. For the past two weeks,
efforts had been made TO purchase
beer at these places, in order to file
informations against them as was
done in the cases Of twenty others
this morning. These three proved
too crafty for the city's private de-
however, that liquor was being sold
and determined to act accordingly.
Gather at Station.
Saturday evening at 6 o'clock, the
day officers gathered at the station
to change shifts with the night men
who were just then coming in. This
all fitted in finely with Commissioner
HiIpert's plans. Chief Henneman
picked the men for the work and
assigned them to the various leaders,
who had been chosen in advance.
1t was decided that Chief Henne-
man should be in personal charge Of
the raid on the establishment of
Luther Hardin, at BIT Main street.
Captain John L. Griffey accompanied
the chief. Assistant Chief Pierson
led the raid on Salzer's. With him
went officers William LaFeber and
John Tigue. Captain Wilson led the
raid on Jerry Stacks place. Officers
William Shepherd and Bernard Conn
accompanied him.
The first party to leave was that
of Assistant Chief Pierson. This
group left the station about five min
utes after six. A few minutes later
Wilson with his assistants started to
Stacks and then Chief, Henneman
with Griffey started out to Hardin's.
No Trouble Experienced.
The procedure on reaching the sus-
pected place was simple The war
rant was then read to the proprietor.
At none of the places was any re-
sistance met with. No comments
were offered when the warrants were
read. AS soon as the reading was
finished, the officers began systematic
searches of the places.
HiIpert Waits at Station.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Hilpert
and Sergeant Warren Holiday waited
dr., ~ ho Mo Sxyoo
that as soon as place was raided,
the officer leading the raid should at
once notify headquarters, that the
patrol wagon might be sent to the
place to bring the confscated wet
goods to the station. Those at the
station had not long to wait. Within
fifteen minutes. a call came in from
Chief Henneman to bring the wagon
to Hardin's place. Before Sergeant
Holiday could start, Captain Wilson
telephoned that the Stack raid had
met with success and to send the
wagon out for the liquor. A few min
utes after the wagon left, Pierson
sent in word that the Salzer raid was
successful and to send the wagon
there also.
Sergeant Holiday Immediately went
after the goods. A seven gallon key
of beer and fourteen gallon key of
Presto" temperance beer were taken
at Hardin's. At Stacks two kegs
marked Presto" were taken. At the
police station the kegs were exam
ined. and it was found that one of
these kegs bore government reve-
nue. stamp marked "bee-."
BIu Haul at Salzer's.
But 1t was at Salzer's that the big
haul was made. Here five fourteen
gallon kegs OF beer were taken. The
kegs all bore governm ent revenue
stamps and the trademark of well
known. brewery. Ten empty kegs
were stacked on the back porch at
Salzer's. Two of the kegs at Sal
zer's were on ice.
After all the confiscated liquor had
been brought to the station, each key
was labelled with a tag giving the
of the owner the dry and ffrne