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Show MAKINU LIQUOR IN JAIL. A. Secret Serrlce Mn' IMicorery or a Colored I'tlsotiar'a Trick. "It you wont to aco soma queer things," tnU a secret service olllccr, whoxe specialty Is Internal revenuo enses, addressing a New York Sun man, "jou ought to travel with mo for a few weeks. You would boqii miUto up your mind to ono thing that wlion n man wunts n drink lid will have It. No law In tho world will prevent htm. It's all very, well to say. 'Suppose tho nan Is locked up In Jail?' but that ivon't stop him It he Is a man of lntel-llgcnco lntel-llgcnco and wants a drink vcrbailly. . ran across a case down 'south last rammer that illustrates tho 'simplest J.nA crudest way of producing alcohol. had been, spending tome weeks lu icntral Tennessee and had run down tho. Bill Maverick gang of moonshlnera and landed them all In jail six of thorn. Thoy were a very smart lot and (or safekeeping they woro put In sop-trato sop-trato cells. About two weeks after tho arrest, when I had to return to testify tes-tify In tho case, I went iut the Jull, ind tho sheriff snld to mo: 'Henderson' that was tho name1 1 was going by nt tho time), 'there's whisky In tho jull. I believe your moonshiners aro making mak-ing it,' "'Mko enough,' I told him; 'they krlow how. Just' shift them into now quarters at dinner, and seo what wo cat! find lu their colls.' "YVhllo lny prisoners wcro kopt in another' part of tho jail wo examined their cells thoroughly, but there was not a sign of a still, nor of any whlbky stored away, So wo had to And u fresh clow. It was. a well-managed Jail, and I was reasonably suro that tho liquor was cot fimuggled In It was most likely mado on. tho premises. I found by making .Inquiries that tho prisoner who of (.enest showed tho effects ef-fects of drinking was an Intelligent colored tnati, who had been put Id chargo of tho storeroom! - Ills business was to servo out tho raw food to the cooks and keep tho storeroom in order. " 'That's my.inanl' I said to mysolf, and I hndihlm locked in his cell and went luto tho storeroom. It was just as I expected. Ho had a dozon fruit jars full of corn, beer so strong that about two glasses of it would go to an old drinker's head. Iti was very easily made; ho had only to mako a mixture of molasses and water, start it fermenting fer-menting by adding a little yeast, and .thou throw.in a few hnudf uls of corn. Any Pennsylvania farmer will tell you how lo mnko corn beer. At to fermenting ferment-ing a few dayB, It, contained from twelve to twenty per cent of alcohol, llohad been doing a line business selling this to tho prisoners and had kcot hiiuseli well primed. Tho remedy hero was to appoint a new storekeeper who was not quite so smart." |
