The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-07-22
BOOzEPLANT RAIDED
Chief Phil Landmark Led
Party to the Spot
MASH WAS ALSO FOUND
Illicit Liquor In Making and
All the Side Trimmings
Z Located

Having received a straight tip
that moonshine was being manufac-
tured at 116 West Franklin street,
Chief Phil Landmark armed with
the proper search warrant, and &C.
companied by members of the police
force raided that place Saturday
afternoon about 4:30 o'clock. When
the officers drove up to the house,
which sets back considerable dis
lance from the street and on the
edge Of the Fowler & Pay lime quar-.
ries, Miss Margaret Fleischman was
sitting outside the house reading a
magazine Chief Landmark informed
the young lady that he had a search
warrant emitting him to search the
man answered that her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Fleischman, were
not occupying the house then, but
that a man named Barrett was stay
ing there. While this conversation
was in progress woman attired in
a housedress and wearing a sun
bonnet. darted away from the shed
some distance to the rear Of the
house and scampered through the
thick underground OF cottonwood
trees.
Officer Volk gave chase but the
woman escaped. Later she was seen
by neighbors as she came out of the
underground near the John Salocke
resident and cross North Front
street and go toward Second street.
After Miss Fleischman was served
with a copy of the search warrant
she hurriedly left and went over
toward SecoSd street.
"Hooteh" Was Discovered.
When the officers approached the
shed, from which the woman had
fed, there was no guesswork about
the fact that the 'hootch" plant was
there Chief Landmark removed a
window on the side Of the shed and
there sure enough was the still with
the moon" dripping from it into a
metal can. The officers crawled in
through the window and felt of the
Oil stove and copper boiler, which
was being used as still, and found
showed every evidence that tho
flame had, been turned off but a few
moments \previous. When Chief
Landmark found that he was on the
right track, he called up Sheriff An
ton Osten, and that officer accom-
panied by deputy Sheriff Klugherz
responded. Deputy Sheriff Klugherz
forced the paddock on the shed door
and the officers entered. In the rear
of the shed was found the still as
stated in operation, and perhaps a
pint or two Of the finished product
where 1t had dripped into pan. On
the opposite side Of the. shed were
two barrels OF corn mash, brewing and
bubbling away in good style. Along
side of the barrels of mash was a
part of a sack sugar. In a tub on
the floor was quantity Of the strain
ed mash to be put in the still as it
was being evaporated into moon"
A wooden scoop, two different size
tunnels, strainers, a box containing
new corks, a number Of pint drug
store" bottles. and various other ar
ticles used in the manufacture of
Moonshine." The mash and the
liquor was seized, together with the
articles mentioned, and then the
f1oor OF the shed was pried up and a
ties were found. These were also
seized. &
A search of the residence was
then made, but no discriminating evil
dence was found. Deputy Sheriff
Klugherz insisted that there was a
cache with liquor IN it some place.
A search was made of the cotton
wood thicket back OK the shed in
the quarry. Beneath a pile of odds
and ends OF old rusty pals pans and
onall gunny sack was seen pro-
truding. One of the searchers gave
this a yank, and out came a partly
filled eight gallon keg of booze.
This was also seized. Farther back
in the brush were found two other
kegs Of the same size, but they were
empty, and they were not taken. In
another part Of the quarry near the
shed was found some buried mash.
All of the material seized was loaded
on Lundeen Brothers large auto truck
md fokan fn tho nlra xt1 no,r&xv