The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-07-18
BIG BUNCH OF BOOTLEGCERS
CAPTURED, QUANTITY OF BOOZE
TURNED OVER TO THE DISTRICT
ATTORNEY; SEVEN PLEAD GUILTY

10 be used as evidence against the
the booze squad, thru whose efforts
the arrests were made. were District
Attorney T. Lee witcber of this city.
Deputy District Attorney Delbert A
Hessick of Florence, City Marshal J.
T. Hunt OF Florence, City Marshal c.
F. Skinner of Canon City. Officer Jer-
~ Moran OF this city and two special
detectives fkom Denver; one OF them
stsse agent and the other repre-
sentative of the 'anti-saloon league
It has been pretty generally known
for several months that booze" was
being sold In various parts of this
county and the state authorities have
beer working together on the matter
for some time Evidence had 'accum-
ulated to such an extent as to make it
a certainty that intoxicants were be-
ing sold in violation of Law and the
trap was sprung at the proper time
residents of tie coal camps and Flor
ence. were enmeshed within it, One
OF the state men was detailed to take
into custory the vioiators OF the law
in Florence. and that portion of Rock
vale known as "Stringtuwn- while
City Marshal Skinner and the other
one made raid al Brookside and
picked up two suspects there.
of- -h.,,,, ..-.-,, = IT,
MAGISTRATES courts in Florence and
Canon Citl late Friday night. and all
pleaded as accused and were fined
800 and costs, which was paid in
every INSTANCE. altho not very willing
". Four of the defendants were tax
IN before Justice John R Kennedy
here and entered a formal plea of
not guilty. Later. when their bonds
had been uxed in the sum Of $500
each. for appearance. for trial. they
changer their pleas TO guilty in orred
10 avoid going TO Jail The four men
appearing Justice Kennedy's court
were: Frank Tagilavano. Ayeie Car
melo. Aipbonso Tambanasio and Joe
Martarano, all of "Stringtown." In
addition 10 the fine the costs in each
case were s1so5; making total as
sessInent on the four OF s412-2J-
Four hundred dollars of this amount
viii so into the public school fund.
which. it is estimated, will be fully
81 900 richer when the fines in all OF
these cases are paid in.
Some fifteen men have peen taken
into the official drsgnet in connec-
tion with these whiskey raids, none
of them, however. in Canon City.
sltho one or two suspects here are
Under surveillance Half dozen or
more of the defendants are on trial In
Justice W. l.. Sparks court this after
noon but up TO $50 O'Clock the hear
ing of the cases against them had not
been completed Gen. Maupin is in
for the defendants. AS they are al
legged to have been. taken with the
goods their chances of auqcittai do
rot seem to be very encouraging.
The onice of District Attorney Wit
cheh has been converted in ota verit-
able whiskey depot by the contraband
liquors seized by the officers. These
arrests and the heavy fines imposed
by law for the offenses OF which the
defendants stand accused. will have
a wholesome effect in breaking up the
booze" business in this county. The
officers state that there was not the
slightest resistance shown at any OF
the places searched by them last Fri
day night and that the nsen taken into
arrest accepted IL as matter of ex-
Pectancy. II was after midnight when
the officers completed their raids. A
number of men. who have thus far
escaped arrest. are on the suspected
list and careful watch is being kept
on their movements.