Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-03-31
Nill Found the Cellar of
 Hotel Building

v.rt March 29.-What is de-
 hv experienced moonshine
 :. ,. he the biggest illicit dis
 ,~r,overed ~ in the history of
 ..rnsl s revenue department was
 'ssls z. 2 conseouence of a fire in
 e sosodway Q hotel a. 2812 Ocean
 scIbeepshead Bay. It had just
 { st the stage of profitable pro-
 ~ when the misfortune or
 relessness of its operator led
 discovery.
 ,uae officers found the cellar ,,
 sa aneient tavern partitioned off
 I,ahvrinth of doors and pas
 rs with a view to the qu'
 y of the distiller. At the b
 maze they encountered a Itdt, which included the follow
 cir Pounds of Yeast.
 ee fifty gallon copper stills,
 5 of a total of 130 gallons of ss. eight cans of 188 proof | y,. thirty barrels of fermenting two pumps, one funnel, piping kiteen pieces of hose, and six B of yeast.
 nolice and revenue officers are for a man who, when he
 inc old hotel two months ago, his name as Joe Gallo and his 1, as 567 East Sixtieth street, Ittain. They quickly discover \ no such address exists, and I Gallo also gave a false name. an apparently fled when his dis 1 caught fire. He lived alone
 hotel and, so far as the evil 1 in hand shows, had no part kn his undertaking.
 Policeman Sees Smoke.
 building stands a couple of
 d yards from it's nearest |crs to the north and south and s 100 yards from the nearest | to the west. Since the win kwstorms began there has been travel past it.
 hted Policeman John Mccarthy ! Sheepshead Bay precinct ,on )unds saw smoke pouring out ! old hotels cellar windows. he'd in an alarm and then has Ito the building to do what he Ito subdue the flames. Detects OdOr of Mash. |sharp odor of distillery mash Rvanced in fermentation met
 soon as he entered the door. only a couple of minutes to that he had something more in- |ng than a cellar fire to deal He telephoned to the police and detectives were sent to bsistance. Another telephone tought revenue officers to the the time they arrived the fire It, having done little damage eating away the flooring of Irmer barroom. The officers |thsir way promptly into the kEhsre the contraband above
 yas found.
 Place a Labyrinth.
 ] or whatever his true name gone to work cunningly. A Iron portable garage, which says he had built, was an in- |e adjunct to the. scheme. It to the house and a 'or led from it into the cellar Lroute it was possible to un- 2M a truck all of the heavy
 of the distillery and get M5 the cellar unobserved. les the trap door there were other exits from the cellar the labyrinth which had been n boasted no less than seven ma was ingeniously calculated He any stranger who attempt. suit of the man running the 7 factory.
 lectricity Operates Stills. electriciity and gas had both apped beyond the meters, evi. Tor the purpose not only o1 y but of avoiding questions of the large amounts con.
 The stills were operated by ;lty. Every bit of equipmen1 lmirably suited to the end o1 out intoxicating beverages. taking samples of the vari ulds the revenue officers mad, Y unusuable by dumping coal ma ashes into the containers ,,rrels of molasses, the stills her pieces of apparatus wer, to the federal building ir yn.