The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-06-18
TREVANTY BUNCH
HAD TWO STILLS
Police Get One Going Red
Hot Today on North
Rowland Ave.
WESTRA GAVE THE TIP
Police Officer Westra, Brought
the Information that .
Brought the Raid.

In spite of wide funnel which led
into the chimney and which was used
for carrying off the fumes of alcohol
so that no one coming down the street
could smell distillery, Police Officer
{ am Westra discovered that there was
alcohol brewing at the Carlo Trevanty
home at 315 North Rowland avenue,
and entered a complaint at the police
and district attorneys Office.
Officers Westra's nose did not tell
him lie either; he signed com
plant, and this morning the raid was
made, and the still found going full
blast,
It's That Trevanty Gang.
A still so big, and so much mash
and alcohol and equipment was found
that it was necessary to call in big
van to cart the stuff down to the city
hall Bohm and Hansen responded
with one Of their house-moving vans,
and soon one of those amusing spec
taeles supplied by the police which is
- snnd W a circus" was seen cofa-
ing fsto the alley back OF the city
hall, still and all the rest of it.
Its that Trevanty bunch" said
Sergeant Meissner who directed the
raid, with wrinkle Of the nose, which
was either. intended for the bunch
or for the coils and other parapher-
MALTA smelling of hooch which he was
handling. &
Remember Sam Westra is the man
who gets the credit for this" contin.
ued the sergeant as he together with
Sergeant Buchanan directed the re-
moval of the contraband.
Officer Westra "smelled the smell
one night while travelling his beat q
short time ago. He waited until he
could be quite sure. Tuesday night
before the storm when the air was
just right for carrying odors he got il
again, a powerful kicking" eau d
cologne. He noticed also some tin al
cohol cans standing outside the house
and this morning they were gone.
He reported to Assistant Chief Cy.
Yak and the latter directed him. tt
sign complaint according to the usu'
Il form in the district attorneys of
,e. He did so, the warrant was Sc
lred and about ten o'clock the raic
was made by officer Westra, SergeantS
Meissner and Buchanan and Police
Officer Mitchell.
One Of the Trevanty's drove w
about the time the police arrived al
315 North Rowland avenue and spoke
quickly in Italian to the woman in.
side 1t was too late to prevent the
police from getting in. They stood or
little ceremony but kicked thei: way
down cellar.
There it wasl A 150-gallrn sill
cooking away in heat which wa
nearer that of Hides than anything
else. Rye mash in barrels stood al
about. The police got DO fifty gallor
barrels of MASH and about rs gallon:
of alcohol. The completeness of the
distillery and the equipment founc
below suggested that it had been go.
ing for year or two.
Just as the police thought they hac
gotten everything they discovered &
secret cellar, in which was another
still, discarded like an old hors,
which has seen service and has beer
put out to pasture. In this room wa
o quantity of mash and alcohol too.
Arrest Carlo Trevanty.
Carlo Trevanty was arrested on tn,
charge of unlawful possession of al
cohol, still and mash. With thu
"brass" of his kind, he told the polio,
that he had never seen the stills be
fore, nor smelled them, nor knew o
their existence, though they wer
found in his house.
He has been arrested before as ha!
also his brother, Tony, for violation
IF the law. Tony Trevanty, while liv
ng on Market street, was regarded b,
he police as persistent liquor Law
7ioIator, booze runner anG the like
md was several times arrested in tn
act.