The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-01
Thrilling Aftermath TO big Pinch
which Exposes whisfey Ring
Operating IN Wheeling
District.

r"oplo Of West Virginia. In his bonded
! |prm. for some timc-rld john Barley
corn. He didn't have TO be ntrq'"c"d
| Re was old JOHN" and he carried his
! c.rd"ntiaIs with LIN and they w"r"
| waited far MIC near.
Had TO Back Ont.
Hundreds Of persons tlnckcd FOR
ward. anxious for even : sniff. but IN"
Cnited States MarShals sternly waved
them back. SawGust was poured upon
'ha gallons OF liquor that had s""pcd
from the cask upon the floor Of the ak
press office IN tho second story Of the
| r & o. railroad station building. and
the sawdust was dumped into buckets
and thrown 10 "hollanEhne.
There were numbers OF suhducd
Kicks from the assembled populacc, in
deed. Even some q tho ra!lroaders
seemed TO think !: Shame that q
good lubricant should he treated that
way, but the United States Marahals
stated that the stuff had been placed
in their care and was not for human
consumption.
AID 80. whoevcr does drink Il after
those lines are written. cannot be call
ed human. And there are lots o: gent
lemen who are willing 10 pose as IN
human.
Some OF tho Facts.
To give tho case In detail.
Col. Jackson Arnold Of tho West EIr-
GINA state police. stated Yesterday att
| ernoon that there was not o-l'y one
auto trucH load Of wh:skcy that came
through from Pittsburgh on Wednes-
day. buc there were four truck loads.
The trucks wcr" IN the convoy, no
stated Of It runabout. which hid as lts
hn p u 80 Il
IA saloon business IN town in Wheel
| ing district, and whose name has be-
| coma sononcmous with III" liquor
business.
This man got away" said Col. Ar
mold. My mon. Arc:l!" K%nper and
| Harry Burr got the last truck. What
J did they find on the seat? Five huSkt"a
huddled UP and an automatic Colt gun
! hid away. How many OF those guns
were ditched when these men Jaw the
J state police approaching? No one
knows. And l am sure that n my men
: had tried to hold up the whole bunch
they would have been killed"
Big Organized Gang.
At any rate. according 10 the story
! Of Col. Jackson Arnold. there ia we'll
! organized bunch 81 wh!skey runners
that arc plying this territory and Il
/ will not be long until they are APP
! pretended.
! Tho wh,skey. a9a quarts. all taken IN
sugar barrels was captured near the
STATE line at. | O'Clock Oh !r:esday by
troopers Kemper and BUR Of tho state
; constRbulary.
: The wniskey in the truck IN which
/, was being conveyed WAS taken 10
tn" garage OF the Greene hotel in
Trta de.rh!a. and the prisoners wore
, 'oCNeu up' ..-,,,.-,. A..u
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80 FRA ,,,,ch,nn big CadlIlac
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! ,.ar.,,nr, rrn,.r,w was ,r,roachcA
o.. ,.,, urL,nwr who asked him "a
,oL r,,,, NJ -, lnrr,,a If sue;,r from
t",+,.hurrh ,n R,IIatre ohio Darling
.,nir,a 20 10 rruduc,. dcolnr OF pits.
hw-eh and word yras at ouc,, sent u
,ho, civ n verify HIS statement. lio
w,s n he maid $50 for trausror,lns
80 .nyor nv Tho owner VINO went t.
/ us,,o,,s NV trair
! "A. started ut o'clock "Wednesday
nor,,tnR after taking on his load OF
: barrels of sugar and on the way. met
, Sam Cohen, William Moore. Harry
. Gordon and Morris Swar;Z, who al!
49,. out ~ a fob. on, OF luck and
d,Jnt care whether or not they took a
Gov ride Of a hundred miles or 80
81 ,vas IN perfect innocence as TO
vba. was in them barrels" said Mr..
Darling. " was merely asked to deliver
th.u, AZ Rellalre. And | am sure that
,bern gentlemen. as Is sitting there and
Who was with me on the truck was IN.
,',nws nothing as to wha, was IN tncln
. h,rreIs"
And ,he gentlemen In question all
h,hhad ,haIr heads 10 show that they
wars MARKEDLY IN unison with the SEN
Imam. ~ NJ Darling.
Az n ,bair testimony WAS heard and
,,ay wsre CROSS examined and uucs-
80, 49,. rant,,I, Torton NJ the State
po,ica and f,onmIsslonsr Conrad
FU ~ anu n oso1rod angeIIc connie.
% a,sIrr,,d tbat u they had
1880 - ,aa wbIskcv ,nsrcad Of
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VII" P"' '"''' -, !. 6 r,,a
each I" aPpe'r ot'"'e W. ~ - -,
JEFy al ~ iht' S""' W, -
. answer TO F'"'"''"s '"e >'''''''' ~
/ h>oi'ion act
i - eh""n tn"' " '"'"'o' -
mold "i IN" STATE police 5 N"'' H'' "'
way through i am eo'"E ,"'""HA WIN
This business ne sa'" "'F. iS!'"WI