Show I HIDING THUSKEr I I Ingenious Contrivance of Illegal liquor DealerA Wonderful Barrel I The evasion of the castiron Connecticut I Con-necticut license law and the hunting down of offenders by the prosecuting agents greedy for the 5 bounty paid in every proven case of illegal liquor oeliug famish many novel episodes To successfully evade the law the saloon keeper must not onJy hava hia liquor hidden so as to defythe keenest keen-est search both day and night but hem he-m ut be constantly on guard against spies in the pay of prosecuting officers In spite of all difficulties there is hardly a village in eastern Conneticut in which there are not violators of the law who make a good living besides paying heavy after the agents have hunted them down The large factory villages in which the no license system is in force are a fruitful field for illegal liquor selling The employea are crazy for alcoholic stimulants and any one who is able to furnish it to them is sure of an income of from 2000 to 7000 a year The business is sometimes done by tbe proprietor of a village resturant but oftener by a mill hand a freeandeasy fellow with a large circle of acquaintances In Occam a village a few mtles north of Nor wicha jolly young Frenchman Moses Lambert was convicted in the Nor wioh City Court of sixteen distinct violations of he law in one year and ja < sentenced to pay fines and costs in each case ranging form 63 to 120 In all his cases appeals were taken to the Superior Court and nearly all of them were marked off the docket of that court by the States Attorney the usual fate of the cases brought by the prosecuting agents Notwithstanding i I standing his drawbacks Lambert makes money He smuggles his whiskey into the village at night The hunt for illegal dealers is going on continually the raids being male generally just before daybreak byI I agents who have ridden in light buggies ail night Two men the agent and his deputy sheriff ride together The suspected man is awakened by a clattering at his backdoor back-door The demand folIo wee Open your hnusel We are liquor officers He hastily complies and the officers earch the dwelling by the light of a lamp carried by the owner from cellar to garret Not a cranny escapes inspection Closets and pantries are inladed wearing apparel Is searched feather and straw beds areripped openfloor boards are taken up tables are sounded for double drawers the hearth stone is pried up and the chimney is peered into Next the barn and horse stables the hay lofta and tbe well are searched and then sink drains and stone walls are looted after tiio proprietor jocosely assisting in the search and cracking jokes at the officers expense ex-pense Often a cunning 1qaor seller will hoodwink the agents for yeara before be-fore the hiding place of his liquors is ferreted out It bad been Jong suspected that Ell St George of Putnam in Wlndham County was selling liquors contrary to the law His house a < 3 visited by men at all hours who apparently had no business with him bat several investigations by spies resulted fruitless fruit-less On last Saturday Constable Davis and Herman Carver entered St Georges place and after long search discovered a pipe in the ceiling of his reception room By pulling up boards and cutting away plastering they traced it to a tank containing several gallons of whisky between the floors in an upper story On the same day these officers surprised sur-prised Anthony Murphy the same village Anthony welcomed them with a smile and said Search all you want to gentlemen youll find no rum about my place There nothing stronger than cider here and thats in that barrel over there He pointed carelessly to a cider cask in a corner of the room The officers looked the barrel over carefully < care-fully and smelt of it Get a glass Andy said one of them Andy got the glass end the officers turned the spigot Out ran a stream of sour old cider Next the officer got a hammer and knocked out the bung He lowered his official nose into the vent Cider trues yer born I was his comment Then he noticed a peg on the rear end of the barrel Might as well try this too Andy he said Mr Murphys countenance fell The peg was pulled oat and the constable drew a glasf of Old Crow whisky Quite a bariel he sad getting get-ting off his knees Did you Invent it Andy Going to get patent There are two apartments in the caskA A few weeks ago prosecuting officers at er eearchicg a boardirg house in the early dawn at Versailles Ver-sailles and descending to the broad kitchen noticed that the diniog room table was singularly corpulent corpu-lent They rolled it over two or j three times there was a olashing of wickercovered glass and a gallon of whisky trickled out on the floor I |