The Connecticut labor news., 1921-11-04
BOOTLEGGER, VICTIM OF OWN STUFF,
 FALLSINrO TAR BED; HAS TO BE CUT OUT
BRITISH VISITOR HERE STUDYING PROHIBITION RE- SUITS, IS GIVEN A REALIS- TIC VIEWPOINT.

Wilfrcd Walker, the British counter prOpagandlSt, who IS III this country tC obtain tirst-hand information of the op- eration of prohibition to combat Pussy foot Johnson and others in England said he had noticed the worst objeCt-lcs- son against prohibition Friday while motoring from Washington to New York.
 "I stopped my machine on the road not far from a small town near Baltl- more" he said, "when l found some men gathered there Hitting large black slab from the roadside with one of those der rickS which automobile service stations send out.
 "l was puzzled to account for the in- terest the men seemed to show i'll their work Looking at it closely l saw to my surprise that 1t was a square thick section of tar with what appeared to be human being firmly mounted in 1t. In England 1 had seen similar slabs Ot fOSSil-bearing slate with the remalns Ot prehistoric animals and plants embedded Ill them, but this was a man, and fully dressed one Not only that but he was emitting feeble, incOherent cries.
 The derrick slowly lifted the slab with its human inlay The man was struggl- ing, but could hardly move finger. It looked like a bas-rclief trying to break out of a panel. 1 asked young fellow how this situation came about, and he said:
 ".That's Jeff Campbell, the village bOOtleggcr. He drank a lot of his own stuff last night while he was delivering on his route, and on the way back he stumbled over this bed of tar. It was warm then for fixing the road here. He went to sleep and sunk in 1t. It turned Io- ;,l,+ r,,I tho tarlN this morning some people came by i'll an automobile and told me at the village about him. We tried to pull him out but he's cemented in. tinally we had to chop through that whole slab. We have no sympathy for him.
 Several men were now holding the slab so that the man stood upright he mans face was toward us, but he had the attitude of walking sideways, one foot behind the other, as III the Egyptian sculptures 1 could not help laughing as the absurd thought occurred to me that 1 was looking at a drunken fossil or an ntox1cated rock-Carving. He was so deeply sunk i'll the matr1x that he looked more like an engraving than carving i'll relief
 "1he men began to debate whether they should transport the fellow to the village in his setting, or to chip him out there One man suggested that to pay them tor a lot ot hard work, they ought to exhibit him like beetle in amber for few days i'll tent and charge admission to motor istS. Another suggested that they could quickly free hl1n With an aCetyl1ne torch, but the fossil protested as vigorously as his close-fttng environment would per init finally, they decided to move in sltu, as the archaeolOglsts say, and carried hlm like a colossal cameo into small truck and took him to the village, where they started to drill and Chisel him out.
 They had cut him away from his mounting, and were debating whether to smet the rest of the tar ott him or dis solve it with several hours rubbing ot gasoline, when 1 was forced to continue on my journey. As far as 1 have observ- ed, nothing like this has ever occurred III countries where good liquor IS easy to | obtain, and 1 think 1t will make strong l pomt TOT the cause, when l return to in November