Evening journal., 1921-06-29
SEIZE STILL
UNDER STOVE
in KITCHEN
Continued from First Page.

leitpnoue GILL At my nOluc IN stan
ton," said Director Boyce, Inform
ing me that a man living in New
Castle, who we have had under OBJ
servation for some time, was going
to make a delivery Of three gallons /
of liquor to a person who would
meet him at O'Clock in Brickyard
lane, on the Baltimore pike. between
Stanton and Christiana-
"As the sppointed hour was near, |
had no time to hunt up another
officer. So / decided to try the |
proposition by myself. Fortune IA
vored me. for just as 1 left my resi-
dence in Stanton to get into my ma
chine. an acquaintance walked by. |
l asked him to take a ride with me, |
not divulging my destination.
"He agreed, so we proceeded to |
the appointed place. There we
found that Schade and Fedhenea had !
arrived before us. The men were in
motor car. evidently waiting for a
customer.
Il got out OF my machine and
asked them If their car had broken
down. 1 smelled liquor and so re-
marked. / then moved closer to
| their machine and saw "A 3-gallon
| jug / asked what was in the jug
and one of the men said liquor He
took out the stopper ana tried to
pour away the liquor. but I halted
his scheme TO destroy the evidence.
Then 1 made the two men get into
the back seat of their own machine,
and with my friend drove into the
police station in this city, leaving my
own machine at the side of the
road"
Director Boyce nor his acquaint-
ance. it may here be explained, were
totally unarmed-
After having the men locked
up at the Wilmington epollce
station resumed Director Boyce,
Il went back home in Stan
ton. taking the three gallons
of liquor with me. On examination
1 found that the liquor was newly
distilled SO 1 thought further ac-
ton should be taken before friends
in New Castle of the arrested men
knew they had been apprehended.
It then got in touch by telephone
with Israel Howard, chief Federal
enforcement officer for Delaware,
and Frank Z. Haley, special agent
, for the Law and order Society. To-
gether we went to New Castle, armed
s with search warrants. BY this time
- il was midnight Going to the store of
q Pete Schada, at the corner Of Sew
g enth and Dobbin streets, we obtained
entrance and began search.
1--WE had nearly given up the
search when we noticed that there
l. were some new nails in the floor Of
y a shed kitchen. We pried up the
It flooring and found under it, in a hole
n in the ground, twelve gallons OF
y liquor. The newly laid boards had
e been concealed by a kitchen stove.
'e Next we proceeded to a residence
j. at GIG Clark street, where we had
been informed Schada had been op-
Grating a still. The doors were
locked. We demanded that the house
n be opened in the name of the law
g As the demand was not complied
n with, the lock was broken and tbs
house entered
r I'VE were short-handed, only be-
e ing three in number. Consequently
we could not cover all the exits. A
man known as Lite steve" who
was IN the Houotf JunlNtu AIulu z
- second-story window and escaped il
n the darkness. after a chase.
d I'VE found in this house a com
e plete 2O-gallon still and about q
{ gallons Of liquor. We are nov
n searching for Little Steve" anC
/ when he is ar arprehended we feel tina
we. will have cleaned up a bad gam
, Of bootleggers and lawbreakers.
I'VE have been working on thii
New Castle proposition for a Ions
.~ time and we feel that this cleanup
i will rid the section OF a trying sit
rt uation."
-. Altogether. the raid netted on
- 2O-gallon copper still, copper worm
n syphon hose. FIVE one-gallon demi
h johns, three containing brown whis
IF ky and two containing white o
distilled lightning" one three-gal
lon jug and one fve-gallon jug @
liquor.
he The seized liquor and still hav
TO been placed securely under lock an
key in a vault at the u. S. Enginee
Building. Sixth and King streets
:. where the prohibition Offices are 10
Gated. Viewed as a whole it form
q comprehensive "moonshine outfit
= The automobile in which the tw
[ prisoners were riding when cap
| tured has been placed in a garage
| pending court order transferring
| to the government under the confis
cation provision OF the Volstead act