AL CAPONE AGAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1932, Page 5

AL CAPONE AGAIN

DISTILLERY SEIZED VALUED AT 250,000 DOLLARS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, April 30. , Tlie “New York Tmies’s' (Jaicago correspondent states: 1 lie Loo,Odd dollar liquor distillery of A 1 Capone, i.i Chicago, which is equipped nui trapdoors, and blind entrances,, and wind) lias it sumptuously furnished .ook-jut lojm, has oeen seized, by the Prohibition authorities to-day, who declared that it -is the largest .illicit plant teat has been seized in the United States. Since the Prohibition agents were unable to obtain an entrance, they called a wrecking crew, who cut a ,hole through the «ah’ with pickaxes, and they lound the plant in lull operation, although only one man, a fireman, was arrested, the others all escaping. The equipment included two 5,000gui lon stills, three 5,000-gallon tanks full of alcohol, and other extensive machinery.

The Prohibition authorities state: “Only one bootlegger in the world could finance and operate such a distillery, and that is A 1 Capone.”. The plant occupies three buildings, one serving as a power house, the second being for the vats, and the ■third for tlie stills. Naptha was mixed with the exhaust fumes to neutralise the alcoholic odour bo fore reaching the outside. The .estimated profits of the plant are 10,000 dollars daily. It has been in operation for a year.