A ten gallon keg of native Missouri moonshine

Two Missourians and a Missouri car were the results of a raid staged by Sheriff Lewis and Night Marshal Coon. It is quite apparent that there had been a mix up. The Missourians had got their liquor in their car all right but somehow the Missouri Likker got mixed up and got inside the Missourians who got in their Missouri car and got this far up in fertile old Iowa that spikes its near beer with denatured alcohol and knows little if anything about the potential wallop in rye and corn.

At any rate when these two Missourians with their load of rye inside and out, stopped in Osceola they were at once nabbed by the officers and given free bed and board at the city bastille until the next morning when they were sufficiently sobered up for questioning.

They stated that they had become rather tired of Old Missouri and were enroute for South Dakota where fabulous tales of mazuma for Missourians who would harvest wheat had come to them. But Dakota is a dry country and they must take with them the necessities for irrigation.

The men’s homes were near Richmond Missouri in Ray County. County Attorney E. K. Jones and Sheriff Lewis have been making a careful investigation of the past records of the prisoners and as nearly as can be learned they have no police records. The Sheriff of Ray County states they have no criminal record that he knows of. The liquor, they said, is rye whiskey and it must be of powerful mien for they carried with them a bottle of some sort of thick fruit syrup with which to mix their drinks and take out some of the fire.

No disposal of the case had been made.

—1929 —