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OFFICERS TAKE FIVJtT “WHISKEY HOLLOWdine Tanks and Galvanized Warms* Used To Make “Com” in Whiskey Hollow.Special Enforcement Officer Joe Morgan1 and Deputy U. S. Marshal George Ritter of this city, made a raid Tuesday in “Whiskey Hollow,” an ideal location for illicit distilling about five miles northwest of Greenwood junction In the northeastern■ • L . ■ * * '•part of Sequoyah county, hear the Arkansas line, and captured five stills and destroyed nine hundred gal-Lons of mash, about Hiirirh*Ars of mash, about one hundred empty (barrels* galvanized fpbs and other paraphernalia used irr making “com for consumption In Sequoyah county. The day was rainy and none of Hie stills were in operation. As the neighborhood was well advised that the officers were in the vicinity looking for stills, none of the operators were caught, but all stills and material found by the officers were destroyedIt seems that iron gasoline tanks were■favored by the moonshiners of this locality as all stills' found were made of these tanks and the worms were ofgalvanized iron. All stills were foundi ■ ■(« iin a radius of one and one-half mile,‘ 1and it was apparent to the federal* -Tofficers that this whs a welt knownLI.irendesvous for illicit whiskey manufacturing and dispensing. No one was found near the stills, and after theywere destroyed the officers returned6• ■to this city, knowing that it was use-i i • ■less to wait for the moonshiners toP * » ^ •r Icome out of hiding, as their presence there was too, well advertised.i itThese gasoline tank stills with iral-vanised iron worms are of a deadly type in producing poisoned whiskey,,and it is a Wonder that the product of- - '! . - r‘ ' •'stills of this type have not claimed more victims in this and surrounding' *■ p ' • 1 * ' -territory.i. -I ;
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Sequoyah County Democrat
Sallisaw, Oklahoma, US
Fri, Nov 16, 1923
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Rick E.
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