The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-02-26
Sheriffs Force Raids Farmers
House East Of oil Field and
Brings Back Home Grown
Factory for Liquor.
MAN is SICK WITH FLU"
GIVEN CHANCE FOR BOND
MIX Can and Gas Pipe Are Business
Part OF contraption; Liquor
Smells Like Corn Whiskey;
Four Gallons Taken.

The district around Cement nro.
duces other fluid than oil according
TO the findings Of Matt Sankey.
sheriff of Grady county, who with
Deputy D'Arthur Wilson and Oscar
Dryden, yesterday afternoon round.
ed up a still of the home grown
variety plus about four gallons OF
some sort Of vile smelling liquor at
the home of George Freeman east
OF Cement just inside the Grady
county line.
freeman was not brought to Chick.
asha due to the fact that he is n
'flu' victim and has been for the
past l3 days. Sheriff Slnkey left
him in bed yesterday and will re-
turn today accompanied by r. p
Moore, justice Of the peace. when
Freeman will be required to make
bond or be brought to Chickasha
and placed in "A hospital pending his
recovery from his present sickness.
He Is married and has family.
Still Once Milk Can
The still is rather a crude affair.
as stills go. Tho business part OF
II AS wonce selfrespecting milk
can, size ten gallons. Into the lid
of this milk can has been inserted
a pipe about three feet long. which
cnonected with other joints OF gas
pipe forms the worm" only this
worm" isn't circular. It's SQUARE.
The outfit was brought to Chicka.
sha by the officers and now reposes
as Exhibit A in the office Of the
sheriff. The liquor gives off AN
odor slightly like unto corn whiskey.
but it has a redlsh hue which
the belief in the mind OF
the sheriff that some sort of syrup
Or molasses was used In the manu-
factnriig process, along with the 9TH
er ingredients.
Equipmetn Is Complete.
Sheriff Sankey stated that appar-
entity the equipment at the Freeman
home was complete.
"The house is two story affair"
said Mr.. Sankey. The plant was
up stairs and there seemed 10 be
little else in the second story. The
milk can was rigged up to sit on a
stove with the gas pipe which sub
stituted for a worm rigged up in
a water container
I'VE found Freeman in bed. He's
been there, his family tells me for
l3 days and was today In no condi-
tion to move. There was nothing
we could do but leave him, but to-
morrow we will go out with a JUS
tice of the peace, require him to
make bond there, or have him
brought to Chickasha and placed in
Il hospital. want him to be where
know it when he gets we'll"
This catch represents the first
'still that has been taken in town
by the Grady county officers in some
time. Probably the last catch was
made prior to this was made in the
sand hills near Dutton where three
men were taken together with
sill of some proportions. Apple and
/ each brandy seemed to be the spe
cialty Of the Duttoq operators, ac-
cording TO tde office IS who brought
the staff in
This Dutton catch was made in
ne days when Jim Dillon was dep
uty L. S marshall. He worked in
connection iwth Dick Morley, feder-
al man, aud Sheriff Sankey's forces
TO round up the outfit
No charges had been filed against
Freeman yesterday evening, but it
was expected the legal steps necees-
sary would be taken today.