The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-06-06
MALTA MAN ACCUSED
OF MAKING WHISKEY
Hired Government Agents to Operate
Still for Him in BOwdOin-Had
a Complete Outfit.

81 was trying to catch them, be-
cause l thought they did me-" was the
explanation given by Severe Buisson,
Of Malta, when he was brought before
United States Commissioner c. j..
Brockway last week to face the
charge of illicitly distilling liquor of
a spirituous nature in a shack at
Bowdoin.
Buisson has for several months
made his home in Malta. More re-
Gently, he has been engaged as a Ia
borer on cement work for Contractor
Schooley, only last week having as
| sisted in completing a new walk on
Fifth venue
Operatives Work for Him.
Government agents arrived in the
city about ten days ago, and accord
ing to their testimony, it was not long
before they had entered the good gra-
ces of Buisson in Malta. He had, they
assert, offered them a drink of lem
on extract which they politely refused
Later on, they claim, he offered them
work and furnished them with a re-
cipe for making corn whiskey, and to-
gether last week they went to Bow
doin and started in. After six days
of hard labor in. the whiskey factory,
where the mash had been started I'M
der the direction of Buisson, the rev.
enue collector, Mr.. Boucher of Great
Falls and Tom Johnson, sheriff OF
Phillips county, went to Bowdoin and
made the arrest of Buisson, and he
was lodged in the county Jail on Sat-
urday night.
Buisson ever went to the trouble OF
extending credit for them at a pool
hall in Bowdoin and also at the Dunn
Mercantile store, where the "hired
men" procured AZ cents worth of su-
gar, yeast and apples.
Wanted to Catch Them.
Buisson, in offering his side of the
story at the preliminary hearing on
Tuesday morning stated that he had
given some fellow a twenty dollar bill
for the purchase of some whlskey,
that the fellow had gone south with
his change, and while he was not sure
that one of the operatives was the
fellow, he suspicioned so and was Gag
erly anxious to "get even" and decid,
ed to give them work in the still, get
them in the operation of turning out
whiskey and have them arrested.
County Attorney Gabriel asked hin
if he was working for any law off
, GERS in this effort and he stated he
, was not.
He was asked where he had secur'
!, ed the still and stated he got it from
2 a Kentuckian who owed him a bill
+: and was holding it for security.
Then he was asked about the recipe
: for making corn whiskey that he hat
given to the men and he claimed tn
Kentuckian had also proffered thi'
: information to him.
He was then asked if he knew h
: had violated the federal statutes de
manding the registering of a still, tn
registering of a distiller, the making
: of whiskey and another law on tn
:, matter and he stated that he did not
Had Good Outfit.
In the shack at Bowdoin, an almos
complete paraphernalia was found in
Guiding copper kettles, barrels and nu
merous additions to a distillery.
Two copper coils were found in tn
attic of his shack in Malta, which tn
witness claimed were to have bee
brought to Bowdoin the night the ar
rest was made.
The outfit was brought to the coun
ty Jail where it stands complete wit
d the unfinished mash in it just as
n was when the officers entered tn
h place.
Buisson claims that his drinkin
D habit had led him to imbibing of len
on extract in quantities. This is tn
= first official information at hand 9
anyone using the extracts of the kit
chen for alcoholic beverages.
The "hired men" stated that Buis
son had offered them each drinks c
the lemonade" but they refused tn
refreshments.
Monday at the arraignment, Buis
son pleaded not guilty to the charg
against him and his preliminary heal
ing was set for Tuesday at nine o'cloc
after which he was bound over to tn
federal court in the sum of $1,000
Commissioner Brockway upon REM
ering his decision said:
"After hearing the evidence, 1 al
going to bind you over to the feder'
court where twelve men can decic
your case. I shall fix your bonds E
they were before, $4,000.
STATE U COMMENCEMENT
TAKES PLACE JUNE Isl
Con, monnanoont moaL- of tho c+o.