Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-10-07 | Page 2 | Whisky is Lost When Ruling is Made

WHISKY IS LOST WHEN RULING ISTOE . Montana Seizure Ordered Returned to Owners, but It Cannot Be Found . j HKLK.VA. Mont.. Oct. 7 tBy A. P A consignment of 1251 pint! of fin (whisky which has been the subject i of litigation alnce June, 119, disappeared dis-appeared recently while being taken to Hamilton, Mont., to he delivered to W. W. lirr. on of the ownrn of the liquor, aa ordered by the prohibition prohibi-tion enf 'rcement headquarter In Washington, It wu announced last nirht by J. H. Metcalfe, federal prohibition pro-hibition director for Montana. on June 1919, Sheriff Green of Missoula county, seised the liquor, alleging- that It vai being Illegally transported across the county. The district court declared the whlaky for- tt.it tt l.llF tha Ha.fa.rwlnevf . nru.tj felted, but the defendants appealed the cane to the arete eupreme court, which reversed the lower court on October 10. 1921. The supreme court held that the aearch warrant ueert in the selsur was defectlv. The consignment then waa returned to the ownera. but U. .11. P. Shelly, then federal prohibition director for Montana. Immediately aelsed It araln, alleging that Its poaaeaelon waa Illegal. Not long ago the prohibition enforcement enforce-ment f-fficere In Washington ordered, the liquor returned to Ite ownera. and It waa while the lost atage of the Journey to Hamilton waa being made by motor truck that the whleky disappeared, dis-appeared, Mr. Metcalfe aald.