The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-05-11
Police at Midnight Friday Capture Mammoth
Exhibit at Frank Katutis' Shack on
South Sheridan Road.
OFFERED HAROLD ROCK $500 BRIDE
Big Haul is to Credit of Alert PatroIman Who Made
Arrest When Offered Bride by Two Men in
Car - Get 800 Gallons Mash

! the station together, but instead, still
standing on the running board, he call
ed up to the police station, summoning
Assistant Chief Cyzak. 13or.f
what have you there?" asked the
assistant chief.
"Two bootleggers, I Think said
Officer Rock. "Come down"
Reinforcements were sent and pres
emily the two prisoners under escort,
and their two fve-gallon jugs were
brought to the police station. Moon
shine it was, the police decided, after
taking a Whit at the mouth of a jug,
though the official smeller Of the de-
partment, Meissner, was not present.
One of the men gave his name as
Frank Katutis, R. F. D. No /, and the
other the name of Zano Vitkus, 107
North Pleasant street Vitkus, accord
ing to Officer Rock, was the one who
offered him $500 if he would let them
go. He disclaimed having had any
thing to do with the moonshine, The
men were locked up and questioned
separately. 5rs
Convinced from the officers story of
the offer of a $500 bride, that they
had to deal with "hard- boiled viola
tors of the law, Assistant Chief Cyzak
and Sergeant of Detectives Charles
Rock, subjected the men to severe
grilfing in the police station Finally
Frank Katutis informed them that he
had "small still" out at his farm.
Assistant Chief Cyzak then ordered
him to show the way, and the party
left the police station. Beside Frank
Katutis there was Assistant Chief
Cyzak, Officer H. Rock, Sergeant of
Detectives G. Rock, Detective Breidt.
Like They Have in Kentucky.
Katutis directed the driver to a
place south of the former Maple Inn
on Sheridan road. He brought them
to a shack which was set far in from
the road towards the lake, and which
had neither road nor path leading to
it. It was a veritable moonshine den.
The prisoner led the way to the barn
which had a secret door leading below
the barn in which there was a
room twelve feet wide and twelve feet
long. Here the officers found 600 gal
Ions of mash. 1t began to seem like
moonshine dream Then Katutis
led the way to the house, about 200
feet from the barn.
Bruno! Joel" he cried, before he
opened the door. But Bruno" and
"Joe" the two men believed to have
been watching the operation of the
still, had heard the commotion at the
barn and gone while the going was
good.
There it was, in the kitchen of the
house! A veritable mastodon of
still, the biggest ever seen. It was
as tall as the police officers who sur
rounded it, and it was going full blast,
! capacity 1875 gallons, The house was
searched but there was nothing else
to be found except the distillery. Of
fcer Rock tried to search the cellar
but stepped in water up to his knees
There was nothing but the still in the
house, and that was too large to cart
away to the police station. The of
ficers sent for Edward Johnson and
the police truck, and then had to- break
down the house and cut out a window
to get the still out
The still is now on exhibition al
the police station.