The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-03-20
STILL OWNERS
PUT UP SCRAP
Mrs. Philip DragOvich is
MAD" When Officers
Break In.
GET In THRU WINDOW
Sergeant Kirsch Makes Himself
Small and Crawls Through
Cellar Opening.

A lively contest took place Wednes-
day afternoon at the home OF Mr.. ana
Mrs. Philip Dragovich, 700 South
Superior street, when the household
ers refused to admit the police sponge
squad arriving for raiding purposes,
but the police won. This morning
Philip Dragovieh was brought into
court charged with unlawful posses
sion of moonshine still, moonshine
mash and moonshine liquor
Sergeant Kirsch was in charge Of
the SQUAD which made the raid. With
him were officers MeGiyern, Melbusch
and Buchanan. When they arrived
as roo South Superior street and
knocked at the front door, nobody
came to unlatch it for them. Around
at the rear it was the same. The Of
ficers looked through a window and
saw a man inside asleep in bed In
one of the rooms.
Crawl In Down Stairs.
Finally the officers became convinc-
ed that the persons inside knew that
they we're knocking for admittance
outside but that they were refusing
to open. While Buchanan continued
to assail the door with his fists, Ser
geant Kirseh took a screen from one
of the windows in the basement,
opened the window and wriggled
through the aperture and dropped
down on the basement floor.
e He made his way through the base
ment and upstairs, finding Mrs. Drag
oyich still listening to the officers
knocking outside. Her establishment
and fury at seeing the officer before
her, admitted on ruse of his own,
knew no bounds. The sergeant sue
ceeded, however, in reading the war
rant to her, and later to Philip
Dragovich.
Boy Had the Door Key.
The small boy of the household was
in possession of the key to the front
door Kirsch Secured it, opened the
door and admitted the police officers
without. Melbusch had been unable
to make himself as small as Kirsch
and therefore could not negotiate the
window passage.
The police found the still and coils
in a small room in the northeast
corner of the basement, and mash in
the furnace room. The police be-
lieve that Mrs Dragovich had been
busy dumping as much moonshine as
she could. She was busy upon their
entrance in pouring out a pint bottle
of the stuff in the kitchen but the
sergeant assisted by Buchanan sue
ceeded in getting it away. A small
quantity was left in the bottle.
The fight which was put up in the
household over the arrival of the police
and the efforts that were made to pre-
vent them from searching the house
convinced the police anew of the hard
brazenness of the moonshiner, who
not only violates the law, but thinks
he can get away with it with i'm
punity and put up any kind of fight
against the police that he chooses.
Dragovich when arraigned thi:
morning on the still possession charge
was mad as halter. He Said that
mot drop of moonshine was found
in the house,.
"The officers found little" inter.
ruDed the police captain. ellis wife
tried to spill it and did dump some.
Dragovich, through an interpreter
explained, as if he thought it might
help matters, that he had just married
a widow with three children who No
longer was able to get her motherhood
pension on account of the marriage
and that he was a Waterman for :
local railroad company getting SIS
month.
You can't get any money out o.
him." added the interpreter to the
court you'll have to put him in jai
that's all
Eyes, you can put me in jail am
support my family, snarled Drago
vich
Have you your second papers p
asked the judge.
Eyes"
well bright citizen you are
You're not going to come in here anc
get gay, however"
On the plea Of not guilty and waiv
ing the preliminary, Dragoyich wa,
bound over to the April term, bonds
500.