Evening journal., 1922-03-04
GET 'MOONSHINE'
IN TWO RAIDS
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equal TO 500 gallons OF distilled IL
ouor. they say; but II was easier 20
destroy Il on the premises than to
clutter up the Prohibition office
with II.
Pusev is a carpenter by trade.
According TO the prohibition agents
he came TO Wilmington from Mil
ford shortly before Christmas ana
settled with his wife and two chill
dren in a house at 527 East Seventh
street. Around the holidays, the
agents further aver they learned OF
large quantities Of "moonshine' be-
ing distributed and while evidence
tended to point to the direction OF
the vicinity Of the Pusey home they
were unable to obtain sufficient evil
dence to warrent raid.
Since then. however. they have
been working quietly on the case
and last night they sprang their
trap.
Going to Spring Alley, which lies
in the block between French ana
Walnut and Second and Third
streets. they captured Pusey as he
was making a delivery OF liquor
from an automobile he is said to
own. In the car were twenty gal
Ions Of "moonshine.' With Pusey
was driver named Levinsky.
TIE agents sent their prisoners TO
the Prohibition Office at Sixth and
King streets. where both were
..sweated." Pusey Il is declared.
finally admitted that the supply OF
liouor in his car had come from
farm run by Townsend. about two
miles from Milford on the Sussex
side Of the line and on the Harring-
ton and Milford road.
II is declared by the agents that
this farm. So they decided TO swoop
they already had evidence against
down upon it at once. Hopping into
motor cars they made a quick run
10 Milford and out the Harrington
road TO the Townsend place.
There. In cellar. to which the
only entrance was through a door
leading from the yard. they found
the three stills. the stove. eleven
barrels Of mash and three gallons Of
finished liquor. One OF the stills
they declare. was bubbling away on
an oil stove as merrily as II the
Voistead Act was only in operation
in China.
Townsend submitted to arrest
without any protest. The barrels OF
mash were broken up. the stills and
stove loaded onto the motor cars,
and with their prisoner. Townsend,
the agents returned 10 Wilmington
In the meanwhile Pusey had been
cont TO police headquarters for the
night. Wher the agents arrived Will
Townsend he. too. was sent TO th'
PUBLIC Building for safe keeping
Townsend. like Pusey. Is married
and. like Pusey. has two children
According 10 the agents Towns
end was a mere tool" or employe o
Pusey and did not have anything {
do with the sale of liquor. Towns
end. word from Milford today STATED
declares he knew nothing Of tn
stills or mash in his cellar, declarin
Pusey asked him to let him, Puse,
store some material in the celia
for safe-keeping.
II was because OF the evidenC
against Pusey today that Commi
sioner Cam set his bail at 5000
instead OF $1,000 fixed for Townsen
Neither man was represented
counsel at the preliminary heariI
given by the commissioner in n
Post Office Building. but a man sa
ing he was from Milford this afte
noon began an effort TO furnish boz
for Townsend. II also was said IN
Wilmington man intended provi
ing a bond for Pusey on Monday
Townsend will be given a Il
hearing by the commissioner at
o'clock Monday afternoon and Pus
will be heard again at. 10 o'clo
next Saturday morning.