Show r 9 OB 6 4 0 0 0 O OI I 0 HUGE BODlE H fl PLANT fOUND I IN It BASEMENT j Still and Mash Hidden Away In Secret Con Con- Concrete Concrete Concrete crete Department H F CLARK ACCUSED Deputy Sheriff Finds Trap TrapDoor TrapDoor Door Leading to Distillery Sheriff Richard 1 Pin cock and his ils deputies Saturday afternoon raIded I the most moat complete co and most costly moonshIne plant they have yet tak- tak taken taken tak taken en In a secret concrete basement In inthe Inthe the tho Clark dark slaughter house bouse at We Wet t Twenty first street As the result of at the raid H F 1 Clar Clark proprietor of ot the place as as taken Into custody and later re- re released released re released leased upon cash ball bail ballA bailA ballA A large larse cement basement I no O windows or other openings ex cx ex- ex exI except except a secret trap door entrance I had been especially built for tor the I moonshIne plant In It as as a 90 i 90 lIon gallon still 26 barrels containing I 1 gillons lIons of ot fermenting mash I and 10 gallons gaIlos ot of o liquor There Thereas I as as e evidence that the plant Dant hal had halI halI I been operated tor for a Ion Ions time Tho officers dumped the mash I out upon the cement floor until It sa 88 more than tian two feet teet deep Jeep cut cuta cuta 1 a large lorSe hole through the tho flooring and took the tile out and to th sheriffs s office The still tn tao I kegs of at moonshine and other equipment w a ere ere also and taken to the he county i M KE VISITS During the lat last few months the officers I have gone to the Clark place four tour times limes and made which pro proved cd futile So cleverly was aas as the entrance to the plant hidden that It t took the most scrutiny to ta discover er it t Sheriff I Deputy D IY F 1 and Deputy Fred Tout Taut roads mada I the Iho raid For nearly an hour they searched about the slaughter slaughterhouse slaughterhouse I house and talle failed 1 to find an any traces ot of a 0 still r Finally Tout went wont Into a stable Is a part of ot the building In horses were tied Almost VI under the horses feet reet he noticed notice thit th the earth had been recently disturbed and he ho thrust a pitch pitch- pitchfork pitch torK fork fori Into 1010 the eaith and dust an and the II door hap I I The dirt was IlS then quickly I shoveled sho away and the tho trap door doop opened A tunnel from the trap trap- I door dool le led 1 to a cement wall all of ot the II I underground room in which there thero II vas a hole holo about 30 Inches In InI InI I ST PIA-ST DI DISCOVERED I Quickly the thc officers climbed In- In Into Into to In-to to the cement room and round found a amoon ai i moon plant of ot proportions capable of at turning out many Gal gill Gallons Ions lons a do cia dav The tn six twenty lx gal 60 lon gal Ion burel must ha hale hao e been bean brought Into Sno the a loom toom tho the final eon eon- con crete wall was poured or the floorIng floor flooring In ing was Installed altea they had been put in m place Mace The 90 still sUII aa a was heated I Ith ith a specially constructed com corn compressed pressed 1 gas plat plant and was fed f-d by two Iwo tanks tanIes Water Vater was as piped the room and a sever Beer connection I also IH the tha concrete All lelnd kinds of at paraphernalia for the tha I of liquor and bottling was found At the time of ot the discovery of othe the plant there there- was as as no one at home in the tho house which Is about too yards from the slaughter tel ter hous house except n a woman Jo 1 FIt C UI FIR FIll r Deputy Sheriff Steele was as left lett at atthe atthe atthe the plant t to watch atch tor for the coming of at the 0 while lIle the hauled the stuff to toe tie sheriffs s sI office I did dd not appear r but an anI hour aftel the th raid was made the tho I sherif was waD called by Joseph Ches Ogden attorney who aho ho asked the amount of ball bail dark Clark was to be placed under Sheriff conferred a with Judge James Jame K I N Kimball who set the tha ball bail at I Upon telephoning tele tho the attorney that the lie ball was set at I Clark then than appeared a at t the ther furnished the r sheriffs office and f ln cash lie He Is to bp be bpI charged with lIh mn Inning Ing liquor In hi his I |