EVADING LIQUOR LAWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11938, 27 March 1914, Page 3

EVADING LIQUOR LAWS.

DEVICES IN AMERICA.

The discovery by the deputy marshal of Nowata til' a unique method of dispensing liquor through ;i gas jet lias given rise to ;t good deal of speculatio.'i among federal oilicors as to what doduo will be tlii< next; resorted to to purvey liquor in the Oklahoma ''Indian country. "• Before the discovery of the original "plant. , ' the marshals thought thai; they had encountered about every possible trick of the trade; but the Nowatii incident leads them to believe that the inventive genius of the bootleggvr, instead of being exhausted, is just beginning to develop as the net of til. , fiiiliiirpi is tightened about the social means o-f shipping' and selling liquor in old Indian Territory. The marshal of Xowata had failed on a number of occasions to find liquor in ;i certain ''joint' - where he had reasonable grounds to suppose that liquor ■was kept, and it was only by accident that one of his assistants, in endeavouring to light the gas burner, turned tin. , bidden valve that caused the whisky to pour from the chandelier. The entire supply was drained out of a little copper tank' secreted in the ceiling j"*;t ever the, rliandolier. The otlicers promptly arrested the proprietor of the place on ;i charge o£ selling liquor. One the most artful tricks ever encountered by I'nitod tStates deputy mar- ' st.ais was brought to light recently at WiilHirrmi by UepiMy .). O. I'eters. T'tri s had stopped in a general morrhan-(l-se store uvi'iii'ii !>y an i'aiian, am! w :s liUestiunin.; , i'.ie | roprietor. who was \\\\- i t-r Sli-'piciiMl lor .^eliiliL; , liquor ii' '1.-' miners in r- 1 -.- viciaity I'i-ier-; finally !■ T"iiii' e\-:s | :.'i , :ited -it t lie man '-; p"i.i i ii'ii ii.ns and t ! •rll i 11:"/ aside nl' ipii--- ,- tiosis. so made :' search in ill. l j'.fi-mi>'s •] his own hook. .In tit , . , caseine.ir, j ■ivii,-IT- :■:'.'- >l:.ii: was kepi, hi- foun i ! I WO i'ases of ■•γ-miimmi goeds. i One case contained r;iu> Litk>l Ici "taking Powder." and the other, smaller cijis without labids but containing the lithograph of a big steaming platter of pork am' bea , .*. I'elers 'iad a '''hunch ,, and bridge into < in , nf e.i.di kini.l of cans. In the linking powd mt:;u was a false lid, which, when removed, disclosed a full qii.irl of whisky the small can containing a. light. :;'d Italian wine, which is much in demand for holiday .festivities on ihe mining c: inns.