Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-13 | Page 20 | Booze Runners and Liquor Captured

0002E IK AIID LIQUOR I HID i ' ! One Automobile Escapes Af- ! ter Wild Chase by Two . ' . Sheriffs BILLINGS. Mont.. Feb. 12. Heixure of forty mi of bonded whisky and the j arrest of three alleged whisky runnen ' resulted from a wild automobile pur-i pur-i " eult by sheriff officer for some forty rollea in Biff Hern county, part of It '. through barbed wire fences and across hill, according to word received here . today. The chaae ended after one ma- chine had been overhauled by officers and the driver captured, and another had been disabled ly rifle fire. - Sheriff John MacLeod and t'nder ' Sheriff Carl Long of Big Horn county took up the pursuit when the machines , driven by the alleged bootleggers drove . rapidly through Hardin yesterday. They J telegraphed the Indian police nrf.on'ir T Oralis to atop the cars and then fol-. fol-. lowed. j The whisky laden automobiles j . crashed through a barricade erected by ' i the Indian police, who sent a volley of ! rifle shot after them. One of the ma-I ma-I .. chines was overtaken five miles further , ,.on. but the other took to the hills and tore through barbed wire fences be-fore be-fore It was stopped. The prisoners gave their names as Kd " Brown, Fred Jones and John Hmith and said their home was Ureal Kalis.