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The Pentwater News
June 18, 1926

                 OFFICERS FIND MOONSHINERS AT WORK
                 
                 TAKE FOUR STILLS AND LARGE QUANTITY
                 OF MOONSHINE IN RAID ON TUESDAY
                 
                 One of the most profitable moonshine raids ever 
               made in Oceana county was staged Tuesday when Sheriff
               CUMMINGS and deputies went to the farm home of LEO
               KOWALESKI south and west of Rothbury near the county
               line.
                 The officers found KOWALESKI at home but having
               no charge for him they did not arrest him but went
               to the woods where they had been informed the still
               was located.
                 The moonshiners were very clever in the locating
               of their still. In the thick woods they had evacu-
               ated and built a regular log house under ground.
               This was covered completely and naturally and would
               defy anyone to find it who had not had a good tip.
               The only entrance was through a hole in the ground
               which was covered with branches and leaves.
                 The officers found the operator of the stills,
               JOE JOLLEBY asleep and quickly placed him under
               arrest. The outfit consisted of four stills each
               of 20 gallon capacity. They took 700 gallons of
               mash, and 24 gallons of the finished product.
                 JOLLEBY was taken to Hart and arraigned before
               Justice GURNEY where he was bound over to Circuit
               Court under $500 bonds in default of which he is
               remaining in jail.
                 Assisting Sheriff CUMMINGS in this raid were
               FRANK DEMMON, CHARLES WALKER of the liquor squad
               from Muskegon Heights and also the Muskegon Heights
               chief of police.
                 
                 
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