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IIi *ContsnueC tram pug* One, iccRiony with a d»*scriotiun o: the ru:d on me TUthil: farm ’ The agent enclosed that tr.e r.»..:-11:1 party, which induced o’h»*: [ ATU investigators. stare troopers and IM.ddletown police, had had the Tut mil home and barn under surveillance for seme axe prior to the I actual raid which took; piace at S 3€! I) —T»j Ir +~M'Trap Door Discovered, Bradford said that a few moment* before 2’30 Coiacicco dr.-ve ! up to the Tuthili bam and backed hi car against the building. As lie emerged from the auto he was taken into custody and hustled ‘ away before he could give any I warning Search of the car disclosed thirty-five gallon tin* of fuel oil.Next, according to Bradford, the raiders lorced open a barn door and found an 1.100 gallon still along ! with a quantity of sugar and aico-i hoi cans on the first floor of thebuilding and a 4.600 gallon mashvat on the second floor.There was no one inside the bam. Bradford said, although only a tew moments earlier the voices o: men had been heard A subsequent sea re n disclosed a secret compartment wrh a trap door through which the still attendants apparently had fled.Ryerson and Tuihiii were found shortly afterward m the farmhouseand were placed under arrest, thewrnoss said. The others were picked up fa^er.
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Middletown Times Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Mon, Mar 19, 1945
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