Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1917 — CROWN POINT BOYS ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

CROWN POINT BOYS ARRESTED

Opened Railway* Switch and Then Fired at Officers. Crown Point, February 21.* —Six Crown Point boys got themselves in" serious trouble last night at the Panhandle depot when, haying taken too much liquor aboard, they interfered with' traffic on the railroad and later fired at officers of the law. Will Briese and George Hayden were arrested and .four escaped. Th e latter are accused of firing on City Marshal Platt and Deputy Sheriff, Olds. ‘ The boys were in a machine and ■at the railroad crossing threw a switch and broke it » afterwards, '•uttiug out an hour on a freighi. Briese and Hayden were arrested and cited to appear in court Under SI,OOO bail. i; f ■

Following the plan of the French government in prohibiting the sale of liquors containing a high degree of alcohol, a comipittee of 100 men and women has launched a. camI -I - /paign in Los Angeles to obtain the passage of an • ordinance that do liquor containing more that 21 per cent of alcohol (this includes whis-- , ky, gin, brandy and all so-called liquors), can, be sold or given away in any public drinking . place. Arrangements are under way in San Francisco to bring about a similar campaign. “We are going to take the sting out of this saloon,” said the originator of the plan.