Local Party Object of Downright Meanest Trick. Latest Turn Says Booze Runner Swiped It.

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PURCHASE MADE AND STUFF HID ON FARM

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When It Was Wanted It Came Up Missing, and Then “Hell Began

to Pop.”–Stuff “Evaporated.”

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Frequently in the illicit liquor business there occur heartrending incidents just as they do in other lines of activity. But there is this difference, the facts hardly ever come to the surface, because the game is illegal.

Not long since, according to report, a most heartrending episode, especially for the local party, occurred in New Ulm. It is related that he had purchased 165 gallons of king alcohol from a Twin City runner, who is well-known in New Ulm, as he keeps the highway hot between this city and the cities on the banks of the Mississippi.

The Double Cross.

Well, anyway, the story goes that he made the deal to furnish 165 gallons of alcohol to the local party, which transaction involved some $1,500 simoleons. After the alcohol was delivered the purchaser thought it would be safer on a farm in the rural districts, than cached in New Ulm. So to make it safe all around it was carted out in the country and put in a safe place for the booze runner to gobble.

The first visit made to the cache by the supposed owner revealed that the 165 gallons were missing. At first the transfer was pinned on a local party, but after some of the facts came to light, the booze runner, who delivered the stuff is now thought to have shadowed the local party when he was hiding it away, and as soon as it was “cold” to have lifted it and delivered it to other takers. At least it is said that a local professional man, who makes frequent trips out in the rural districts, saw the booze runner on the highway, near the farm, where the alcohol was cached, on the evening it disappeared.

New Ulm Review,

April 8, 1925

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