The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-24
FEDERAL RAIDERS FIND
BIG STILL WROKlNG
Three Kentucky Moonshiners and Great Still
Taken i'm Raid on KenosIla
County Farm.
TWO LEAP THROUGH WINDOW; ESCAPE
Raiders Under Cover Of Night Swoop Down the
MoOnshners and Take Them
by Surprise
LEAP THROUGH WINDOW; ESCAPE

in the state of Wisconsin, was found
in operation and was seized by the Of
fcials With it went thousands Of
gallons of mash and moonshine found
in the den.
The men under arrest are William
c. Clements, E. M: Boone and frances
Miles, all claiming to be from Louis
vile, Kentucky. They refuse to di-
vulge the names of the two com
panions who escaped The prisoners
were taken Immediately to Milwaukee
where they will be given hearing be-
fore United States commissioners.
Stage Daring Raid.
The raid was a most sensational
one. Under cover Of darkness the
federal sleuths slipped up on the shack,
surrounding it and blocking almost
every avenue Of escape. There was a
creek in the rear of the shack and
it was only by wading through this
that the two missing moonshiners
made good their escape.
~ Raiders, it is said, had had the
shack under suspicion for several
weeks and had been spying on its
operations. Armed with warrants the
federal raiders came to Kenosha
county on Thursday night and with
out seeking aid from any local Of
ficers staged the raid.
The agents deployed and approached
the shack from three sides. When
they closed in on the moonshiners
there was no resistance as the latter
realized that they were overpowered.
$50 Gallon Capacity.
The raiders were not disappointed
in their find. The plant was a COM
plete moonshining outfit and it was
running at full tilt when the raid
was made.
The still, a great copper affair, had
capacity of $50 gallons and could
turn out a milkpail of moonshine
liquor every ten minutes. There were
five 500 gallon metal tanks for mash,
twelve bags of cornmeal and -four,
a quantity of sugar and five gallons
of moonshine.
In the cellar was an excavation
capable of holding 10000 gallons of
mash. There was a 500 gallon cooling
tank in which the distilation coil was
placed. Water was pumped from a
cree by gasoline engine, the puff
fing of which could be easily mutfled.
A twenty horse power steam pressure
boiler furnished heat for the still.
The shack in which the outfit was
set up is 81 feet long and 2745 feet
wide. A rental of 500 year was
paid for the use of the water, ac-
cording to the raiders, who said that
Bosse had given a lease for the prop
erty last May. Actual operations,
however, had been going on only
four weeks.
For the Chicago Market.
The raid, it is said, will break up a
most profitable illicit business which
had been built up by the moonshiners
with Chicago bootleggers. 1t is main
tanned that moonshine was hauled
Chicago in five gallon cans.
The federal raiders who took the
prisoners directly to Milwaukee were
T. B. McNally, j. ]. Wahl and H. B.
Harris.
While reports had been current in
the neighborhood Of the farm that
there might be a moonshine den To-
Gated in the woods, the operations of
the moonshiners had been kept so
secret that little was known of them.
They made no attempt, it is said, to
market their product in Kenosha
county and their arrest was made pos
sible through trailing them from the
Chicago end of the business.