San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-16
RANGERS ASK
DEPUTIES AID |
IN DRY RAID.
Secure Legal Warrants and
Justice and Sheriff De-
partment Serve Them.
GET ONE GALLON
Find Mash, Empty Barrels,
a Funnel, a Warm
Still and a Coil.
GET ONE GALLON

One gallon Of lincolnshire" a warm
still, five barrels of mash, eleven empty
barrels two small copper coils and one
new funnel were seized by state ran
gers and deputy sheriffs Saturday aft
ernoon in three raids made by officers.
in East End. No arrests were made.
An inventory was made of the equip
ment and liquor and it was tored in
the vault at the Be1ar county court
house.
Saturdays raid was the first to be
made by rangers and representatives of
the sheriff's office, working together
and is the first time the rangers, dur
ing their more than two months stay in
San Antonio, have sought the coo IT.
alton of local peace officers. Two
rangers accompanied the deputies to
the sheriff's office with the seized
property, but left shortly thereafter.
The raid swere made under the au-
thority Of search warrants issued by
Justice Of the Peace r. Neil Camp
bell. They were issued on affidavits
sworn to by Rangers n. G. Williams
and Stowe, alleging that equipment for
the manufacture of liquor was stored
in the places to be raideds
Deputies Serve Warrants.
Application for the search warrants
vas made by Ranger Cap; Baldwin
Saturday morning. Justice of the
Peac Campbell. after assuring him
self that all provisions of the Dean act
had bee complied with, notified the
sheriffs ,ffic hat :he re -ers want
ed deputy sheriffs to accompany them
on the rats and requested thai they
be on hand at 1 80 Satu; ,ay after
noon. Chief Deputy Alphonse New
ton assigned Deputy Sheriffs T. n.
Flores, Charles Peters and John Ga
roni to assist in the raids. The search
warrants were still in the hands of
Justice Campbell.
The deputies reported to Justice
Campbell in his office and accompanied
by Ranger Captain Baldw'n the depu-
ties and Justice Can. bell repaired to
a rendezvous on East Conn e street.
There the officers and justice of the
peace were Joined by other rangers and
all loaded into cars and started for
the places to be searched. Just before
reaching the spot, the search warrants
were handed to the deputy sheriffs,
the officers divided into three groups
and they proceeded to three unnum-
bered houses.
Deputy Sheriff Flores and his party
entered one small house and after a
careful search found small copper
coil and small funnel. Eleven empty
barrels also were found. No one was
in the house. however. and the officers
deparated without making any arrests,
bringing the coil and funnel with them.
The party headed by Deputy Sheriff
Garoni, and joined by Captain Bald
win and Justice of the Peace Campbell
entered another house in the same
J block but made "dry haul" No one
was found at this place.
J Find Warm Still.
Deputy Sheriff Peters and his
party, however, were more successful.
! They found a still from which the fire
; recently had been extinguished and it
: was still warm. In a large glass jar
was about one gallon of "moonshine."
The officers also found five barrels
) Of mash which was destroyed on the
? spot. The "moonshine" and small
! copper coil. together with the "booze"
! were brought to the sheriffs office. 1t
4 was necessary for the officer to force
Z open a door TO enter this place. No
: arrests were made.
: The action of the rangers in seek
= ing the assistance Of the sheriffs de-
! partment Saturday, followed the
I quashing of complaints against two
Z men, where rangers had made raids,
4 armed with search warrants issued by
District Judge W. w. McCrory. The
= complaints were quashed on the ground
I that the search warrants were illegally
! obtained. Under the Dean act it is
J necessary for two credible witnesses to
:. make affidavit Of the sale Of liquor
on premises TO be searched and the
. warrants can only be served by a
deputy sheriff or constable. This is
!. the first raid to be made by rangers
= under the Dean act where these provi-