Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-08-06 | Page 2 | Black Smoke Coming out of Chimney Betrays to Officers Presence of Busy Little Still

Black Smoke Coming Out of I Chimney Betrays to Officers I Presence of Busy L Little Still at 16 D street S of ot black smoke I issuing from a chimney of ot Lieutenant David Clayton of at the P PUFFS aroused the tho suspicions squad Thursday night lie He could not understand wh why anyone anone would J fire tire a furnace In such hot weather and commenced an InY investigation I which disclosed a n still stilt No odor was perceptible when Clayton Claton and Reed Billings entered the house and there were no signs of ot a still The Tho clue was as not discovered until Clayton accidentally leaned against a china cupboard The Tho cupboard slid along the kitchen hen floor and a a. moment later Clayton discovered a cement trapdoor four inches thick The officers descended a n flight of ot stairs and discovered a large tage still which was operated by b the use of ot a coal coni furnace A cement wall six feet thick had prevented tho the odor of ot the tho whisky penetrating to the other parts parta of ot the basement and house The stillroom was commodious and tull fully equipped The Tho officers found gallons of ot mash and tort forty gallons of or whisk whisky Jim 36 years of ot age was arrested on a charge of ot being the tho owner of ot the thc layout He was released on bail bait Officers A. A A. A Reese and Frank Barnes found a still operated with a agag agas agas gas gag range on Emerson avenue They confiscated gallons of ot mash and tort forty gallons of whisk whisky in days dars b by th the police and Thirteen stills have been captured as ma many y the tho capacity of tho police storeroom is taxed b by the worms copper boilers I barrels tubs and other apparatus used in the manufacture ro of or moonshine So careless have some of tho the bootleggers become that recently it was wag found a manufacturer of ot s saki kl kf was shipping out to mining camps in the tho state daily dally consignments of ot his product packed In pasteboard crates rho Tho manufacture of ot whisky whisk wine and beer Is increasing every day according to lo the police an and the number of ot arrests is also filling the city Jail