Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-07-13
SHERIFF FORCED TO HIT
SAL0ONMAN TO WIN
/ ARGUMENT"
RAIDS CONTINUED
COUNTY OFFICIAL CARRIES HIS
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ILLICIT
STILLS INTO STREAToR-OB
TAlNs MooNsHlNE AFTER A
HARD SCRAMBLE.

IL takes the patience OF job and
sometimes a little moral or physical
persuasion To make moonshine raid
In la Sale cTnty Yesterday Sheriff
Ayers. after displaying unlimited pa.
tience. was forced 10 use the butt of
his revolver as . sap before he could
cart away some CT the evidence he oh.
tanned during the raid on the Plcsko
soft drink parIor in Strcator Three
times were the jars OF evidence"
which the proprietor had emptied ~
water tank filed. and twice wer,
they emptied before the guardian Of
the law obtained them.
Several complaints have been made
to the shcriff's office lately that tn
search and seizure law was being vio-
lated at the Plesko soft drink parloe
at 5l2 East Twelfth street. StreatGr.
Yesterday afternoon Sheriff C. 6.
Ayers went to Streator TO raid tn
place. Upon his arrival thee he pick
ed up Deputy Sheriff Henry Hnklet
who is on duty in Strcator. and the
two proceeded to make the raid
Lookout Recognizes Sheriff
As thew droYe up to the front Of
the establishment a man who was
standing outside evidently recognized
them. He broke into a run and d;s-
appeared inside the soft drink parlor
The sheriff followed him and reached
the interior of the store in time &c
see George Plesko. the proprietor of
ln L.,
rinse basin. Sheriff Ayers ran behind
the counter and, grabbing the j1r
filed it with water from the basis
He sat the jar on the counter. and
leaving IIinkle to watch it, went dcwl
In the basement to make anoth
search, after ordering Plesko to keep
his hands off the jar
While the sherif w9s in the base
ment Plcsko switched jars on Hinkla.
placing quart jar of plain water on
the counter where the mixture If
water and moon had been standing
Sheriff Ayers returned from the base
ment just in time to see the confis-
Gated evidence emptied in the basin
by Pleeko who had pulled the plug
in the bottom of he BASIN and was al
lowing the water to run down the
sewer.
Mr. Ayers jumped over and placed
the plug back in the basin and, after
emptying the water from the jar Oh
the 'ounter, filled two quart fruit jars
with the evidence" ordering Plesko
again to keep his hands off of it.
"Persuader" in Play.
The raid was continued, and the Of
ficer again looked tward the counter
in time to see Plesko emptying the
two jars of evidence in the water
tank Zip" went the sheriif's re-
volver, yielded by q powerful fist, the
butt of the gun landing in the region
of Plesko's dome The man was not
put out by the wallop, but had the
fight taken out of him.
"Now, you go over end sit down en-
that chair, and don't you move until
, am through here or | will put yo'l
clear out" said the sheriff.
Plcsko is said to have meek'y ac-
quisced and to have remained in the
chair until the party was ready to de-
part.
Refill Emptied Jars.
Once again tfor the last time) the
lars were filled with the water and
moonshine from the rinse basin. The
sheriff continued to make his search
of the place, but found no further evi-
dence.
He informed PreskO before leaving
that he was to consider himself under
arrest for violation Of the search and
seizure laws, and ordered him to re-
prto in ottawa. for hearing.
The evidence which was so hard to
obtain was brought to ottawa and will
be used against Plesko when his case
comes up for trial. 1t is alleged to
contain a strong percentage of moon
shine