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Show Bingham Resorts Raided for Liquor by Patten's Men While many of the Bingham resorts re-sorts were running full blast Thursday Thurs-day night, Deputy Sheriffs Bert Smith, Oscar Fullmer and J. L. Ewlng, assisted by Sheriff Patten's wrecking crew from Salt Lake swooped down on more than one dozen doz-en places and placed 10 persons under un-der arrest. Each one of them were released "on bond by Justice of the Peace Ray H. Kenner. Several hundred gallons of liquor consisting of whisky, gin, beer, and wine, were confiscated and taken to Salt Lake, where It was lodged In the evidence room. The following day the Bingham deputies secured a 40 gallon still and several hundred gallons of mash in one of the small canyons east of the Bingham hlghwayv 4 ." When the big raid occurred Thursday Thurs-day night, the deputies assembled at the sherlft'a office and received instructions. in-structions. Within a few minutes they had taken their places and be-ganjb,eij;,,wprk. be-ganjb,eij;,,wprk. ptjralJ,inJg, the, vw-ious vw-ious resorts. The whole thing was done so quickly that no time was given giv-en for warning the other places, where it was found liquor was being served. In practically every place visited some person was arrested and made to ppear before Judge Kenner. In rounding up these places, the sheriff's office did an excellent job for the town and one which will no doubt be long remembered by some of his victims. The still captured by Deputy Sheriffs Sher-iffs Smith and Fullmer was one of most up to date and largest ever taken in this section. |