The Republican., 1924-10-02
THREE MOONSHINE PLANTS
ARE LOCATED AT FINZEL
Large Quantities of Whiskey.
Mash and Beer Destroyed
By Officers Friday

Forty-one gallons of moonshine
whiskey, six stills, twenty-one bar
rels of mash and 2O6 pints of alleged
beer were seized at Finzel, Garrett
county last Thursday by General Pro-
hibition Agent William R. Harvey
and Deputies Luther Hopwood and
Raymond Bittinger. Three of the IL
llcit stills were found in one house
and four arrests were made by the
officers.
The largest outfit was found in a
vacant house near the residence of
Jacob Baker. There the officers seized
thirty-gallon and 2 ffteen-gallon
stills, twelve barrels of mash, three
gallons of whiskey and three large
cook stoves.
None Of the stills was in operation
| and there was no one around when
the officers reached the place. The
stills were all set up and three of
them were filled with mash, ready for
fires to be started beneath them. The
entire outfit,including the three stoves
was destroyed after samples had been
taken for evidence in court.
Baker, whose home is near the spot
where the stills were found and thru
whose farm it was necessary to pass
to get to them, was arrested and TAX
en- to Cumberland where he was given
hearing before L. S. Commissioner
Anderson and dismissed. He refused
to divulge the names of the owners of
the stills, although he would not deny
that he knew them.
Harvey told Commissioner Ander-
son it was his opinion that the stills
were owned by different parties who
usually operated them in the woods,
but who feared detection during the
hunting season and took them to the
vacant house.
There was no running water near
the house in which the stills were
found, but water was hauled there in
drags from a spring several hundred
yards away.
At the home of Mary Chepkaritis,
in Finzel, the officers found three bar
rels of mash and 142 pints of alleged
beer in an out-building. They did
not find still, however. The woman
was arrested and brought to Cumber-
land where she pleaded guilty before
U. S. Commissioner Anderson and
was placed under $500 bond for dis
trict court.
When the officers went to the
house, Harvey said, he saw the wo-
man hiding two 10-gallon kegs of
liquor in a potato bin. He said he
watched the woman until she had
completed her task of covering the
kegs with potatoes, and then made
his presence in the cellar know to
her.
The first raid in Finzel was made
at the home of Hipol Karalevizz,
where the officers are alleged to have
found six barrels of mash, a 25- gall
Ion still, eighteen gallons of whiskey,
and sixty-four pints of beer. They
told commissioner Anderson they
could see the still through window
in the cellar door.
Mrs. Karalevizz was the only per-
son at home when the raid was con-
Quoted and she was arrested and
brought to Cumberland. Before she
could be given a hearing, however,
her husband arrived and after admit
ting ownership of the outfit, pleaded
guilty before U. S. Commissioner
Anderson and was held under $500
bond for district court.
The three officers also visited the
farm home of John Fadeley, where
they are alleged to have found one
gallon of liquor, hidden under some
bushes. Fadeley was not at home
when the raid was conducted and no
arrest was wade.