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LOCAL OFFICERS LOCATE STILL AND MUCH MOONSHINE IN THE MAKINGSheriff Fosse, Deputy Sheriff Ed. Jensen, County Attorney J. O. Peterson and R. B. Porter Make Real Killing at Old Abandoned Farm Home Hidden in Woods Off From All Highways. Two Lie in Wait When Three Men From Emmons Arrive in Tin Lizzie.Sheriff Fosse, Deputy Ed Jenson, County Attorney J. O. Peterson and R. B. Porter made a real killing Friday afternoon when they swooped down on an old abandoned farm house, located in the timber far from the road, and found a large still, two 30-gallon jars filled with mash and one large keg of the same stuff, all in the making. The still was filled and was sitting on the 6tove all ready for the making of moonshine.Thursday Sheriff Fosse was tipped off as to the location of the still. Friday afternoon he got the officers together and they were soon off in an auto for the place.The abandoned farm house is located on the Theodore Harold-son old place in the deep tangled woods between Upper and Lcwer Twin Lakes. No highway leads to the house.The officers arrived ^t the place about 2 o’clock and found everything quiet but for the saucy chattering of a Jenny wren that was building her nest behind the side wall of a loosened clapboard. The sheriff says It was so solemn-like that you could almost hear the dandelions growing a6 they tried to shoot their heads up above the rank growth of weeds about the yard.The officers soon found that there was no one ■'t home, so the door was broken in and a search started. Up stairs the moonshine factory was located. The officers carried the keg and the two heavy jars of mash to the up stairs window and biff, bang, crash! The jars and keg with all the mash splashed and broke into a thousand nieces on the ground twelve feet below. Peaches and raisins in their thick, juicy “goo” spattered up against theside of the house, soiled the green grass and startled mother wren something awful.After the still and stove and other parts of the factory” had been loaded into the auto, the sheriff delegated his deputy and Mr. Porter to lie in wait, while he, w'th the attorney, would take the spoils to Albert Lea.The two sleuths had not long to wait when three Emmons men in a tin lizzie came bumping along, through a clearing and stopped at the house. One of them got out, walked cautiously up to the house, spied the broken jars and the mash and stopped as if he had been frozen stiff. For about a full minute he gazed at the mess, with wide open mouth, then wheeled around and made tracks for the car. As the men started to step on the gas, the two officers rose from their hiding place. Were the fellows scared? Well, they didn’t act very comfortable,” says Deputy Jenson.They both denied having anything to do with the place. “Who rents this house?” asked Mr. Jensen. “Darned if we know,” one of the men said as they started away.Saturday morning Mr. Fosse drove down to Emmons and discovered that two of the men who had driven up to the abandoned house while the officers were lying in wait, had rented the place some time ago. In other words, the man who denied having any knowledge of who had leased the house, was a liar.The sheriff says he has the names of the men and they will be disclosed next Monday when they are presented to the grand jury. At that time the Emmons men will be taken before the jury to answer to the charge.EMMONS MEN , PAY $100 AND : COSTS EACH:- 3Osmund Barret and Cu* BergstolPay That Much in Biackmer’sI sI 3Court For Operating a Still.The two Emmons men, Gus Bergstol and Osmund Barrett, who were arrested by Officers Peter Fosse and Deputy Sheriff Jenson, charged with operat nq still in an abandoned farm hou e located in the timber, just south of Upper Twin Lakes, were arraigned in Judge Blackme's court Tuesday morning.The men plead guilty to the charge and were fined $100 and costs each, making a total of $214.
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Albert Lea Times Enterprise
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Wed, May 11, 1921
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