Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1911 — STOLE THE EVIDENCE AGAINST “HANK” GRANGER. [ARTICLE]

STOLE THE EVIDENCE AGAINST “HANK” GRANGER.

Boose Confiscated by Officers, Following Bald, Swiped Before Kentland Was Beached. If you beat “Hank” Granger you have to get up early in the morning and keep your eyes open all day. That is what they say at Thayer and all up and down the Kankakee river, and in proof of it they point to innumerable times that “Hank” has slipped through the bars of the law and come out with a clean bill. Some ten days ago Prosecutor Longwell and Deputy Sheriff Howard Myers, of Brook, went to Thayer armed with a search warrant and prodded about through the “for sale” articles that constituted Granger's “soft drink” emporium. It is claimed that the officers found a half case of beer and also a keg which was on tap. With these as evidence the officers started back to Kentland. The booze or the goods that had been confiscated had to go to Shelby, thence to Schneider and then toKentlahd. They never reached Kentland, and rumbx. has it that two trusted pals of Granger's went on the same train with the booze and at an opportunate time swiped it. The prosecutor and his assistant are said to have been completely knocked' out by the discovery that their evidence had been swiped en routo, thus giving them nothing on which to base their prosecution. One rumor has it that “Hank” said he was going to sell booze as long as he lived and if he died and went to hell he was going to open up a joint down there. It Is also said that, while the officers were busy searching the salesroom that a half dozen of Hank’s hustlers were engaged in hiding 9 liberal stock of 'the goods that had been concealed in the ice house, and that when the officers reached the ice house there wasn’t a thing in sight. It is also rumored that after the officers had disappeared, things jyere set running in great shape and U'~ worth pf drinks were sold before the curtain rung down at close of day. All of this- goes to show that Granger is a very smooth individual, a fact probably needing no evidence.