| Show SHOTS FIRED AS AS POLICE POtICE RAID HUGE MOONSHINE I fifth Twenty Street Business Man and Others Held 1 on tn n Liquor Possession Possession Pos- Pos Possession session Charges Police officers last evening put pot putout putout out ot action one ona it f ot the largest plants yet dl discovered ered co In Weber county when ehen they raIded U tL farm at The raid 11 as spectacular cular tor for two of ot th the e ItAlians Italians ans arrested ran from the house when they saw the officers and 1 to stop when shots shot came from the revolvers of ot the police pollee They were ere ero later run down and captured in a field Those arrested were C Bertog- Bertog Bertog proprietor of ot a store on fifth Twenty fifth street Mrs his wife Isidora Gorgie 36 Joe Franchesi 23 3 Sll o 22 Joe 40 All were ere ere charged with la haing lIquor In possession and ball bail was sot set at except In the cases of and Frances 11 who co ho were compelled to furnish ball bail each for tor their activity Ity in tr tring Ing to escape The raid rold netted an gallon SO-gallon 80 and a gallon 40 still 2600 gallons of fermented mash 63 53 gallon barrels 40 gallons ot of alcohol 75 76 gallons of ot moonshine and a truck load of ot equIpment such ouch as u gasoline stoves bo boxes botes es of and other ar- ar artic ar articles wheat heat yeast sugar tic tides es Officers George Theobald L L LNelson LNelson LNelson Hearn Nelson Detectives James Janice L 1 W Pack and Chauffeur A N Larson conducted the raid Officers Theobald and Nelson had been working on the case for tor some jime time under tinder the direction of Chief of ot police Polica Curtis Curtle Allison and they announced d yesterday the time was as es tipe pe for the raid The TI officers started toward In an automobile and on the way met BertognOlli tov ard town In a wagon searched the wagon and nd found aix ten gallon kegs keg's and three the fie gallon five gallon Legs kegs of moonshine Detective Hearn returned to the city with the prisoners and took the theother theother theother them to police station while other officers continued their way to tho the Hooper farm As the officers approached ed the house and Francesi are said to have hae run out the back backdoor backdoor backdoor door and across a 0 a field The po- po police po-lico po lice opened tire fire in tho the air but the men refused to stop Officer Larson then kicked up the dust at atthe atthe atthe the feet of ot one of them and they Officer leer Theo Theo- Theobold bold Off that ed dO down dOn n so 80 I bold who was wall chasing was able abl ito to overtake them The other t O tOmen Ito men remained Inside elaborate In tho house the most illicit liquor still yet captured was found There was one 80 gallon SO-gallon gallon still and one gallon 40 still lit In operation The entire four rooms of ot the house bouse were we-ro used for tor forthe forthe the manufacture of liquor and the mash barrels and other equip equip- equipment equipment ment merit filled tilled the rooms and The plant was as as dismantled brought to n In motor trucks and stored In lit the basement of ot the police poUce station The defendants will morn morn- morn appear In court tomorrow Ing |
