Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1924-06-13 | Page 2 | Dry Sleuths Raid Illinois Resorts

Dry Sleuths Raid Illinois Resorts Chicago, In one of the biggest prohibition pro-hibition raids ever made by the gov. ernment in this district, forty operatives, oper-atives, under the direction of C. W. Tursell and Major H. C. I:i lgewny, gTOup chiefs, swept through the towns of Peru, Ottawa, I.a Salle and M- n-dota, n-dota, in I.n Salle county raided seven-teen seven-teen places, arrested forty-two prisoners, prison-ers, seized 410 gallons of moonshine, elevent 1 arreis of al-chol on I 221 gallons of wine. The raids wio made, it 13 said, upon Information furnished by Herbert H. flood superintendent of tlie Antisaloon league, who has been s-. 11 ring evidence In I.a Salle county for the past fl.e months, j Nine autoinobiies were used t carry ', the operatives from Chicago and the rai is were made simultaneously to prevent a tipoff.