The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-01-15
John Scholey Gets Goods
on Farm in Town OF
Paris Today.
.
FIND STILL IN ATTIC
Raiders Find 500 Gallons of
Mash in Granary and
Moon in Pantry,
BULLETIN.

Jacob Bentz, whom Deputy
Sheriff Nick Otto knows well as
the erstwhile owner of a pair OF
mules that gave him endless trou-
BILE one snowy night, was raided
again this morning at his place In
Pleasant Prairie by Constable
John Scholey and aids from the
sheriff's Office, Deputy Sheriffs
Stanley Rauen and Albert Bonn.
The place has been raided twice
before by former Sheriff Fred
Pabst and his men and each time
illicit moon has been found on the
premises and one time still in
dirty old dairy was found.
Constable Scholey discovered
still on the premises this morning
also. On the way to the Bentz
farm, the raiders met Jacob Bentz,
himself, coming into town. They
hailed him, and made him turn
about to join the raiding party on
his own place. In the basement
of the place still was found
in full operation. Mash was
found all about.
The wash boiler of mash was
emptied out, and the contents de-
stroyed, except for small guam
tity which was taken for evidence.
Confronted with the still, Bentz
said that he FUSED it to heat
water in"
This makes the third raid on
the Bentz farm, which is located
on a road that runs south of the
Geneva road and parallel with 1T,
beginning on the Cooper road.
Once Nick Otto conducted mules
thither, and twice former Sheriff
Pabst found s'mule" there. Once
before during raid, still outfit
was found In the dairy. Bentz
discIaimed ownership of the stuff
found on the second raid and
fought the case in court, insist
ing that he had rented" the dairy
to his son, and that it had been
sub-let to another. He was found
guilty nevertheless by the jury
and was fined.
This time the still was found in
the farm house itself.
John Scholey went out on his bea
again today and came in with anothe
Dad. The raiding constable this tim
visited the farm of Jacob Schnell i
he town of Paris and in no tim
lnearthed a good deal Of the "fol
1idden" stuff. Accompanying Schole
we're Deputy Sheriffs Stanley Raue
and Guy Bonn.
1t was shortly after nine o'clock thi
morning when Scholey and his me
swooped down on the farm. Seine
was just finishing his chores on tn
farm. Scholey read him the warran
and proceeded to make search Q
The home. AS usual, the men bega
The search in the basement of tn
nome, but nothing was found there
There was noticeable odor of brew
put Scholey knew that odor is n
evidence.
Upstairs again the men started in
% the kitchen where the odor was stil
more intense. In little corner shell
IN the pantry they found a pint bottl
If moonshine and this was taken 70
Exhibit A. The search led into tn
attic where the odor of moonshin
became stronger and stronger as tn
'aiders approached. In the attic the
found small still in good workin
condition. This too was seized. ]
vas the belief later expressed b
Constable Scholey that the farr
housed somewhere a larger still Blu
10 trace of this could be found.
The raiders went out into the var
20 inspect other parts of the farm
As they approached the granary tn
deputies called for gas masks. Her
vas something that would have bee
Is effective in the trenches as an
gas bomb. In the granary the me
'ound 800 gallons Of mash. And Jaco
whom Scholey believes is tn
,wner of all this, was ordered t
appear in court to answer to charge
If possession of moonshine, masl
md a STILL