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STILL OPERATOR INSULTED BY HINT BOOZE WAS POORI • tlt;*nlt;l,int Issues Proles! Au;lint Iiiimop That hVflact-lt;*lt;l I jmii Quality lt;H 11 ilt; Liquor.Bureau rount.v bootleggers are getting rather touchy, and have risen in defense* of the quality of the illicit liquor which they have been manufacturing.One of t!i most indignant protests made to date has come from William Maltikau^ki, of Location, Spring Valley, who was grossly insulted, in- says, when certain newspapers intimated that he was making an inferior quality of moonshine.Halfikaii'ki. whose place at the Location was raided recently by Sheriff Neill's pong squad, was hailed into court t«i answer to the charge of operating a small still. Newspaper accounts of the raid, as presented in the LaSalle paper, represented that some concentrated lye which was found apparently was used to expedite the ft rmentation from potatoes.When William appeared at Princeton to plead guilty to the charge against him. he wan very Indignant over fli reflection which had been cast upon his art as a distiller. Monday he issued a statement in defense of his method of making liquor and vouching for its purity.lie declares that the* statements that concentrated lve and potato peel were used in the making of his whi key are untrue. “This is genuine* whi key.” he states, “and ftir-t hei more it did not contain lye nor potato peelings.”
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Thu, Dec 24, 1931
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