Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1920-01-09
TWO ARRESTS MADE IN
DRIVE ON ILLICIT
BOOZE PLANTS
MEN BROUGHT HERE:
SEVENTEEN GOVERNMENT OPER'
ATORS SWOOP DOWN UPON IN
SALE DISTRICT IN SEARCH Or
vIOl ATOFS or PROHIBITION
LAW

La Sallc. Jan. .. tSpeciali @en.
ing a man aud woman IN / a Halie oata
TO be distributing agents. and then
swooping dow upon a still which IS
said 10 have been found in operation.
nearly score Of federal agents YES
tcrday carried through the tirst rad
of the kind in the history of La Sale
county.
While the government officers to.
day refused to disclose amy details
of the raid or names oi prisoners
taken. reports regarded as authentic
said that the dragnet had yielded six
prisoners up to last night It was m
dicated that further arrests might ioi'
low within the course os ie" lo'lfS
At the county Jail which housed
some OF the gang caught IN the led'
eral drag net. the names ot Nick 1u-
hitch and Wabco CoyetsiOn, both o.
Delesby, were given as tho men ar
rested during the coup II was denied
that the remaining tour members OF
the muonshine party were brought TO
Ottawa.
hHf
terdav morning and IL said to have
followed carefully pcrpated pro
gram That there were !. federal
officers on the job Whot tue tune Tor
The raid came developed today and
they worked fast when the trap was
sprung,
Watched for Some Time.
The revenue agents have been act
i've IN the district within the past few
weeks was reported from time to
time, but the first taugihjo evldc1 2
of their work came with the attack
yesterday. VI
# was but few minutes a.tcr \
o'clock when the officers appearel at
the federal building in LA Sale with
a man ar1 woman IN custody Ihey
were arrested in La Sale, but turlhet
than that the officials refu ed inior
nation.
It was Indicated however, that this
pair was grabbed first because OF
The possibility of their communicat
ing With their contedcrateS and lH
ping Off the raid that followed with
in few minutes,
II was reported later that the SUI
was located in an underground com
partment at Oglosby With the rait
there completed the total number o
prisoners was brought up to SIX,
Held at Federal Building
AS sast as the arrests were made
the prisoners were taken to the fed
eral building in La Sale, where tho'
were clOscted with the gOVornmen
agents and questioned at lcrgth
That the revenue men found an a'
ray of evidence was Indicated by TN
fact that the still and a quantity o
the whisKey which was in course o
preparation, was brought in folio"
ing the raid.
More Raids Ahead
The expectations that further arrest
were to follow came as the result @
the secrecy with which the fedora
agents guarded their activities an
their prisoners,
The prisoners were not taken to IN
city hall. but were held at the ieder'
offices and later in the daj the
were turned over to representative
of the shcriff's office and remove
to the county Jail in Ottawa. Thor
they were held over last night and
was indicated that they would h
taken from ottawa to Chicago t0da
There at least two of the prisoner
will face charges brought by the 20
rrnmcnt agents. That there Will !
an array of these charges Is indlaa
cd by the fact that it was stated lf
lowing the arrests that there was
total OF II separate and distinct VI
lations of the prohibition ana reVnA'
laws which could be brought again
the prisoners
Under Surveilence Weeks.
It was said yesterday that the 'oc
tion of the still and the men cOnnet
ed with its operation had been Watc
ed by the government slculhS I
from two to three weeks ana TN
every detail Of their activities W
known to the officers before plans t
the raid were completed, When ever
thing was in readiness the trap W
sprung.
So secretly was the raid eXecut
that II was hours later before {
news reached the outside sources
That there has been a Systema
distribution of the illicit liquor is