Bisbee daily review., 1919-05-09
DOOTLECGERS ARE DARK AND DEVIOUS
 IN THEIR METHODS
Whiskey Imported to Arizona in Tires of Automobiles;
 Moonshiners Clever

PHOENIX, May S.-(By the Asso- ciated Press.)-"For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the boot logging man is peculiar would be an apt paraphrase of we'll known poem on the history of the illicit If. quor trade of Arizona since the state went dry December IA, 1914.
 The original ''bootlegger," say those who profess to know, carried the whis- ky with which he did unlawful trad ing concealed in flat flasks in the legs of his boots, hence the name. One of those gentlemen, the first to come under the eyes of the officers for many months, was captured in Phoe- nix recently, but the up-to-date pur- veyor of liquor in Arizona resorted to much more elaborate tricks to import or manufacture and sell his wares.
 The copper lined trunk with -four compartments shipped in from a non- prohibition state by express was a favorite up to a short while back, when federal officers arrested one man in San Jose, California, and an- other in Phoenix, who were making a business of shipping these trunks back and forth.
 In Jerome, recently, large and sus- picious barrel arrived by express. ac- cording to the story told by the fed eral officials. It was heavy and the deduction was that it was full of some thing. It was deposited on the station platform, but nobody came to claim it. Officers. investigated and 11I s-T-. IL watch was set on the barrel, day and night. There it stood for several days till the arms of the law became weary of the vigil and decided to remove it to headquarters for safe keeping.
 Then came the surprise. The bar rel that arrived full was empty and when it was moved the mystery was explained by a large augur hole in the station platform immediately un- der 1t. Its owner knew it had been watched, so without attracting any un- due attention he had crawled under heath the platform, bored a hole through the blanks and the end of the barrel and drawn off the much desired liquor. At $1O pint, the prevailing price, he made good haul
 An automobile tire travelling by ex- press has been known to bring whis- ky into the state. and recently a large consignment of condensed milk" was found to have nothing acteal about it but the label, while the interior of the cans were decorated with "old rye"
 Suit cases carried along as personal baggage also have furnished means to introduce the forbidden drink into Arizona, but alert officers have devel- oped the habit-unpleasant for the guilty-of carelessly pumping into or gently kicking suitcases and any tell tale 'tinkle" almost always is fatil
 While the ingenuity of the importer of whisky into dry Arizona has devis- ed many elaborate and some exceed ingly clever methods of trying to out wit the law, his brother, the moon sinner" has been just as original
 Illicit stills, grading all the way from a small gas stove, with a can and a copper pipe, to the modern and fully equipped article have been raid ed and confiscated, but the most elab- crate discovered for years was un- earthed in raid in the Verde district
 The still room was excavated at a distance of 20 feet from a well, it's room being about four feet below the surface of the ground. The room was 10 feet square with walls six feet high and could be reached only by tunnel