The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-12-05
MILWAUKEE BEER
DUMPED IN LAKE
BY COURT ORDER
Seventeen Thousand Gallons
Destroyed at Zion City
BUILT SCAFFOLD FOR
JOHN BIS EXECUTION
The New Illinois Dry Law Spills the
Beer
LAW--L CURTAIN
LAW--LANDIS--L LAKE CURTAIN

On November 2lst Zion City staged
the final act in the great beer smug-
Cling drama in which Judge Lands,
dozens OF lawyers, hundreds of sa
loonkeepers, members of the Legis-
lature, rich Milwaukee brewers and
poor Chicago truck drivers took
part. This final scene consisted in
the dumping of S4,l26 bottles of beer
into the sewer. This was only lit
tie more than half OF the total OF
i58,o97 bottles seized at Zion City be-
fore the importation of beer from
Milwaukee stopped.
John Barleycorn's Scaffold
A specially constructed wooden
rough As feet long was built to facil-
tate the work of emptying the beer
5i0ffies rirenien wearing rubber
coats and rubber boots opened the
bottles and turned them upside down
in the trough. Chief Of Police, The
odore Becker, superintended the work
OF executing John Barleycorn while
a crowd OF nlookers surrounding the
scaffold watched the proceedings.
Three moving picture machines were
trained on the scene and dozen
newspaper photographers got pictures
to be sent all over the country and
all over the world
Bottles Bring $2,l48
The beer was destroyed by order
of Judge c. c. Edwards of the Lake
County Court. The empty bottles
were sold to a Waukegan junk dealer
for $2,148. The proceeds, it is said
will be used to build a concrete road
through Zion City Considering the
advertisement of what happens to
beer illegally transported through this
neighborhood it is safe to predict
that not much of the forbidden Mil
waukee beverage will be hauled over
the road built from proceeds OF the
empty beer bottles.
The FIVE men employed to pour the
captured beer into the Zion City
sewer worked from 900 o'clock in the
morning to 900 o'clock at night and
in that time were able to dispose of
Only $4,000 bottles. The balance was
emptied next day by force of high
school boys who volunteered for the
work.
How Beer Case Started
The Zion City beer smuggling cpl
sode began when Theodore Forby,
village attorney, noticed droves OF
motor trucks loaded with beer cases
going southwark through the city.
Many time they were compelled to
go two abreast Looking through the
law books Mr. Forby found nothing
that would give him power to stop
these beer laden trucks. Unable to
procure any information on the pro-
visions on the new search and seiz-
ure law he was baffled, temporarily,
and compelled to watch real beer
pass by unhindered on its way from
the breweries of Milwaukee to the
saloons in Chicago.
The Search and Seizure Law
Then one day DR.. t. r. Quayle
came to Mr.. Forby's office direct from
Springfield with a precious copy OF
the search and seizure law passed by
the last session of the Legislature,
Within one hour the proper papers
were made out and three beer trucks
captured In the days following
many more were brought into Zion
City and held under the provisions oi
the new 'aw.
The Vets First Move
A deputy U. S. marshal promptly
psde his appearance with writ oi