Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-06-29
SHERIFF BUSY
LANDING ON
BEER RUNNERS
JAIL CELLAR FULL OF AM
Der COLORED FLUID.

Reposing quietly in the Jail cellar
are forty barrels (read again) and
numerous sacks of real beer. But
the doors are locked and the windows
have excellent bars.
Paul Kiefer, East Dubuque, is at
home under bonds of $1,000 given by
Frank Lenstra and John Burns of
Jamestown. Mr.. Kiefer awaits trial
at the October term OF court for booze
running.
At home some place in Rock Island
is a tall saloon keeper who wears
glasses. He also is implicated in the
affair but is still unarrested. How it
all happened is like this:
Sheriff Holmes and deputy Dyer
! have known for some time that truck
and auto loads of beer surely above
| the legal one-half of one were being
moved along the river route to points
over the Illinois line. Grant county
citizens residing along the road saw
| these vehicles going up and down and
the running of beer from points north
was considered as being common.
Wednesday the officials went to
/ Dickeyville and doubled back toward
/ Potosi. Near the Shinoe bridge they
! found a Cadillac car, broken down,
containing five kegs of beer. At
! least the man in charge, voluble in
dividual, said so. He said also that
big Pierce Arrow automobile had
broken down between Cassville and
Potosi. The other car also contained
five barrels, according to the man who
did not know he was talking to the
! sheriff The man divulged that the
| big Pierce Arrow had broken down
while coming south Monday and that
the Cadillac had been sent up to take
the cargo on. Half of the beer was
loaded on but the Cadillac broke down
and was awaiting further reinforce
ments from the south The man was
a mere driver, he said, on his first
trip and-"never again for me-"
About this time tall man wearing
glasses and a mechanic appeared in
another car. The tall man seemed
to be the owner of the cargo and the
other was obviously brought along to
get things to moving. The sheriff and
his aide said nothing but afer trailing
the owner for a distance decided to
split Holmes going back to nab the
load in the Cadillac and Dyer going
after the man who was to bring in
the Pierce Arrow
Here fate stepped i'll and the blow
fell in Kieffer, innocent of completely
in the Rock Island shipment but per-
haps guilty of transporting for some
body else. Holmes made his arrest
and pulled for Lancaster Dyer fol-
| lowing the Rock Island man struck
poor Kieffer in Potosi with the truck
load of barrels and bottles in sacks
and nabbed him. Evidently business
was too brisk that afternoon for even
two sheriffs.
The man who vent after the Pierce
Arrow with the man who guarded the
Cadillac, got away with their five
barrels. The Pierce Arrow still re-
mains, lacked up, on the road between
Potosi and Cassville.
Seems complicated-doesn it? The
man Holmes talked with first rode
away with his boss who wears the
glasses. The mechanic who came
with glasses" remained with the
Cadillac and w9s caught His name
is Elmer d. Smith and his home Rock
Island. He was released after he had
convinced the authorities that he was
just a poor, hard-working auto re-
pairman who fixed cars for living
and had never ran barrel Of four
per cent in his whole life.
The arrival of Sheriff Holmes and
his cargo in Lancaster Wednesday
eve created much excitment among
the thirsty and the merely curious.
Any attempts to peek" were promptly
i frustrated.
The beer is still in the cellar and
the authorities are looking for the
man with glasses, said to the be the
master mind of a large gang of booze
runners. AS he is probably crafty
the search may go on for some time
Some days-what? Sounds like ro-
mances about the old smugglers. This
in the time since Mr.. Volstead too.