The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-02-01
WORKED ONEDAY
GETS SIX MONTHS
Raid on Superior Street
Place Yields Rich Sup
ply of Moonshine.
STORY IS DOUBTED
Steve Kozak Who Hurried to
Plead Guilty Is Given Six
Months at Hard Labor.

Steve Kozak, according to his story
this morning, worked one day as a
maker of moons" Judge Slater told
him to work six months under the d.
rection of the sheriff. not at making
moon, but in a factory and turn all the
wages he could earn over to the sheriff
to be used for the support of his fam
lily. Steve appeared anxious to talk
and anxious to plead guilty" after the
police had raided his place at $50 Su-
perior street and had confscated 35
gallons of moonshine liquor, still and
all the things that go with it, and an
unusually good heating plant used for
the manufacture of the liquor. In adj
dition the police put ashes all over a
hundred gallons Of what Steve declared
was perfectly good barley mash.
The Superior street man had it all
over in very few minutes. He did
not ask for lawyer, change of venue
or even a continuance of his case, He
hurried over to court and went right
in and told the court that he wanted
to plead guilty and he appeared an
noyed that he had to wait few min
utes for the arrival Of the district at
torney to make out the formal COM
plant.
Many Officers Have Part in Raid.
There was large number of the
sponge squad" interested in the raid
of Steve's place, which was pulled off
just after o'clock this morning and
under the leadership of Capt. Cyzak the
officers found the abubbling still in OPP
Grafton. Steve explained that he was
employed by the North Shore railway
company during the day and that he
was making the liquor at night The
equipment was one of the best to be
garnered in by the police in the many
raids made in and about Kenosha, but
Steve himself asserted that it was q
very ordinary layout which had cost
him in the neighborhood of $35. He
said that the output had been pretty
big for the first few hours of operation
Lure of Easy Money.
Kozak denied any desire to follow
the lure of easy money and even after
he had been arrested, charged with
having the still and the large quantity
of moonshine in his possession, he as.
serted in no uncertain language thai
he had never sold drop of it and that
he was making it wholly for his owr
use.
How long do you think it, would
take yousto drink this 35 gallons Of
moon ?" suggested one of the detectives
this morning.
Steve paid no attention to the ques
ton but went ahead telling his story
81 never made any of it until las
night" he declared, "and 1 was JUS
making it for my own use. The equip
ment cost me $35 and in one day haC
made 35 gallons of the stuff"
"Now, if you sold it'for Sc a gallon
you could get rich pretty quick sug
gested the detective.
"There is no danger of making an!
more Of it right away" was the an
swer of Steve as he started over t.
the municipal court to take his medi
| cine.
Don't Believe Steve's Story.
Police officers fail to take kindly t.
the story of Kozak that he was operat
ing the still for the first time. The.
even went so far as to suggest tina
they had heard of the operation of /
sometime ago and had been watching
around to get it in operation before al
arrest was made In the squad whicl
made up the raiding party were Asst
Chief Cyzak, Detective Breidt, Mer
chant Police officer Emil Fox and Pc
lice Officers Harold Rock, George O.
Hare and Ed Pecan.