Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — WHISKY RUNS IN STREET. [ARTICLE]

WHISKY RUNS IN STREET.

Liquors Poured Out by Delphi’s Marshal, Ending the Greider Case.} Delphi, Ind., October 20.—8 y the order of Mayor W.<l. Smith, Marshal Roach yesterday poured eighteen gallons of whiskey into the street and the Abe Greider liquor case was ended. Greider had pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful possession of liquor for sale purposes. Last spring Mayor Smith and his deputies arrested Greider after he had driven his automobile into the city from Terre Haute and delivered a gallon of liquor to James Timmons. The eighteen gallons of liquor destroyed yesterday was taken from the car. On each package was the name of a resident of this city or a farmer. Greider, himself a prominent farmer, alleged that he had not acted as an agent in bringing the whisky from Terre Haute, but simply did it as a fatfor to his inepds. Ten indictments were returned against him by the grand jury charging sales of liquor illegally, but these were not pressed, as delivery had not been made, completing the sale. Federal action was thwarted by Greider at the time of his arrest by taking out a federal license for two years. He had brought action to recover the liquor taken by the mayor, and this action had brought him in the mayor’s court, but after his plea of guilty the case was dropped and the mayor was uninterrupted in the destruction of the liquor. Greider’s sentence was thirty days in jail, SSO fine and costs, the jail term being suspended during good behavior.