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Salt Water Leads To Rum.
SALT WATER LEADS TO RUM
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Gangster Detail, Following Sedan's Briny Trail,
Finds Damp Driver With Wet Cargo
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A $7500 sedan that left a trail of sea water as it sped along Pasadena avenue at Avenue 20 early yesterday became such an object of suspicion that Motorcycle Officers Fetterhoff and Lofthouser, working in Capt. Tom O'Brien's detail of "gangster" sleuths, arrested the driver, Ed Butts, 28 years of age, and thereupon began an examination of the car.
They received a shock when in the rear compartment they found thirty cases of imported Scotch liquor, the wrappings of which exuded a snappy tang of salt water. Butts also was wet--in more ways than one, according to the officers--and a sardine said to have been found in the cuff of his trousers convinced the officers that he had been in the ocean--along with the Scotch--not so many hours distant.
He was turned over to Chief Field Agent John H. Wynkoop of the Federal prohibition forces and held on charges of transportation and possession of liquor. The car was confiscated.
Chief Agent Wynkoop and his men were busy in the meanwhile arresting P. A. Gianara at Torrance where the officer reported, the "dry dogs" seized 500 gallons of wine and a fifty-gallon still that was being used to make brandy as "kick" for the wine.
Not content the operatives arrested John Marcel at Watts on charges of possessing 200 gallons of wine.
Source:
Unknown, "Salt Water Leads To Rum," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Saturday, 4 September, 1926, p. 6.
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