The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-07
TWO MOONSH|NERS
GET JAIL SENTENCES
EXCITING CHASE OF 80 MILES
ENDS IN ARRESTS-BOTH
PLEADED GUILTY.

t After an exciting day and night
; chase through deep woods, and over
! portions of two counties, Latah county
deputy sheriffs have landed Charles
Swecker and Andrew Olson in the
county Jail on a charge of manufac-
tring liquor. A we'll equipped still
and several gallons of what is claim
ed by the officers to be the "best
moonshine we have ever seized" were
captured and are being held as evil
dence. 1t is believed by the officers
making the arrests, Charles Summer
field and Pat Malone, that this arrest
is an important one in breaking up
illicit liquor manufacture and traffic
in the timber near Bovill and Deary,
where liquor has been dispensed free
ly during the past several months.
! The officers went to Deary and
searched the homes of Swecker and
| Olson, and claim to have found one
quart of whiskey and number of
empty bottles that had contained the
liquor. They left the homes of the
men wanted and started for the old
! Swecker homestead, which has not
been occupied for some time. They
fond evidence of hasty removal of
| lot of barrels and other equipment
believed to have been used in making
liquor.
Returning through the woods the
officers heard two men talking
and threw flash light onto
them The men fled and as they
crossed a small bridge the officers
head splash and investigation dis
closed gallon jug of good liquor
that had been thrown in the creek.
This was rescued. The trail was fol-
lowed through the woods to the home
of Chuck" Wells a negro, whose
cabin was searched but the men were
not found. The officers claim that
Wells had the men hidden in his barn
and warrant was today issued
charging him with assisting criminals
to escape and Constructing officers in
their line of duty"
Returning to Bovill, travelling part
of the time through snow on foot and
part of the time in sled, the officers
learned that Swecker and Olson had
eaten an early breakfast there and
had left on foot. The two officers
waited for the afternoon train leaving
Bovill at o'clock on the Milwaukee,
and boarded it. At Clarkia the two
men wanted boarded the train and
were promptly placed under arrest.
Each was heavily armed with an
pistol, but they submitted
without resistance. They were taken
to St. Maries and kept over night and
to Bovill by train.
"Both men confessed that they had
been making whiskey for months and
had sold from $3.50 to $500 worth a
month in Deary, Bovill and the log
ging camps, and they took us to
where they had hidden the still in a
slaughter house and dug up 31a gal
ons of double distilled whiskey, that
IS the highest grade moonshine we
nave ever captured" said Charles
deputy sheriff. The
men were brought from Deary to
Moscow by team and lodged in the
county Jail.
These men had walked 80 miles,
,art of the way through snow three
eet deep, from the time we first met
hem in the woods and they escaped,
Until they boarded the train at
Jlarkia at o'clock the next even
ng," said Deputy Sheriff Summer
eld, land they were completely tired
ut We followed them on foot, in
led, and by train and we, too, were
retty tired after the all night and all
ay chase
The men were taken before Judge
tsele, of the district court Monday
,orning and entered pleas of guilty
0 the charge of having liquor in their
ossession. Swecker was fined $50
nd sentenced to so days in jail and
'lson was fined 500 and sentenced
} 60 days in the county Jail. They
egin serving their sentence at once.
! is understood they will pay the
nes at the expiration of the Jail sem
snce.