Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-02-04

room In the lower part Of his house IN
Fifteenth street where I could have space
to exhibit my merchandise to persons
who wished to buy. 1 paid him $3.50
month rental for the room. l had the
merchandise moved to the house and
some time ago l sold the contents Of one
trunk, and the other merchandise was in
that room when the police made the raid.
I was never on the second floor of that
house in my life until the police took
me up there yesterday. The man who
ran out of the back door and escaped
from the policeman, who shot at him,
was :he man known to me as John
Brown.
/ ATTRACTED BY
SHOOTING.
Il seldom went to the residence on
Fifteenth street after I stored the mer-
| Chandise there because / had no occa-
! sion to do so. When I heard the shoot
ing yesterday I stepped from the room
where I had my merchandise stored into
z vacant room across the hall and looked
out Of the window to see who was shoot
ing. I was in that room when a man
entered and started to read to. me a
search warrant. Mr. Brown told me he
owned the house"
j.
bond signed by Nathan Bowman, 1858
Ashland avenue. The bond was fol-
50. 500.
II had planned to move my mer-
chandise from the house today" Barnett
stated. q had paid $1,000 deposit for
the purchase OF property at 1135 Central
avenue, and was to have obtained pos
session in sixty days aud was to have
had the use OF the garage on Central ave-
nue. today, and planned to move my mer-
/ chandise from the Fifteenth street house
to the garage"
Besides Mr.. Brown did you ever see
/ any other men at the Fifteenth street
! hOuse?" Barnett was asked.
Yes" he answered. Il saw two other
| men, but 1 never saw more than one
man besides Brown IN the house at the
same time"
Tn epolce regard the raid as the most
/ important that has ever been made in
| Marion County. The amount Of whisky
captured is the largest ever brought to
/ headquarters after one raid Lieutenant
Cox's report shows that there were I4I
quarts of whisky, four barrels each
containing fifty gallons OF whisky,
! three barrels each containing about
| thirty gallons of whisky, many
empty jugs, sixty seven empty bottles,
! twenty-five empty tin cans OF the four
/ and five gallon size, seven fun barrels
/ OF mash from which whisky is manufac-
! tured and fourteen barrels each about
one-third full OF mash, a gallon OF. color
/ Ing material, two testing glasses and
| three travelling bags, one Of which con-
| tained what the police say are fake gov
| eminent bottled in bond revenue stamps.
! The arrangement OF the bill was clever
and original. The still, a fifty gallon
| type, was as large as any ever captured
/ mere. The still was on top Of a gas
| range and the mash In 1t was boiling
/ and bubbling. large copper tube led
4 from the tor Of the still through a par
/ tition into the bathroom, where the con-
| denser, brass can filled with copper
/ tubing, was found IN the bath tub Cold
water was running in the bath tub to
| cool and condense the liquor.
| The men who operated the still. the
police say, would color the white mule
corn whisky, bottle it in bottles bearing
the labels, "Glenmore whisky, guaranteed
1 TO be pure natural whisky, bottled in
/ bond, GlenmOre Distlllery, Owensboro.
! Ky" The permit for medical use on the
| back Of the bottle was Permit X BPS"
| The stamp across the bottles resemblcI
a revenue stamp and said Tax Paid"
and In red Ink the name Of Wright and
| Taylor, made I'm the spring 1915 and bot
! tied in the fall 1920"
Many extra labels and fake stamps
were found and brought to police head
quarters.