Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1893 — MOONSHINERS IN THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

MOONSHINERS IN THE EAST.

Flnely-Equipped IlHelt Distillery Captarad In a tlarn on Long Island. The secret service detectives attached to United States Internal Revenue Collector Nathan’s staff, In Brooklyn, raided an illicit whisky still, at 1:30 o’clock Sunday mornlne, and captured, after an exchange of about a dozen shots, one of the • moonshiners” and a finely-equipped dis ■ tillery. The capture is estimated to be worth 37,000. The illicit distillery was located in a bam at Woodhaven, L. I. Upon making ar. examination of the bam the officers found an excellent still, ot the latest patent, capable of turning out five barrels of whisky and three barrels of rum. The machinery was destroyed, the Government seal placed on the barn-door and officers placed in charge.