New whiskey Making Plant Capture south of Sayre: No Arrests Made January 22, 1932-Usually when wearing apparel is lost, the loser offers a reward for its return but here's a case in which the opposite is true.

Sheriff Velvin with the Christmas spirit kindled in his heart offers the owners of three coats, long journeys "down the rover" and sizeable fines if they will drop in at his office on the second floor in the court house and lay claim to the garments found in a raid Wednesday afternoon.

The sheriff accompanied by Undersheriff Lawson Billum and Sayre night watchman Harvey Richerson captured the largest still ever taken in Beckham County yesterday afternoon one mile south and about 400 yards west of the Correction line south of this city.

The still housed in a tin building was new and complete.  It had two big copper pots and a brand new 100-gallon copper condenser and all other mechanical requirements to make liquor on a wholesale scale.

Operation at the still had not started but evidence showed that owners of the whiskey making plant intended to begin last night.  All that remained to be done was to fasten connections to the appliances.  Twenty-four, 50 gallon barrels of mash were at the plant ready to be distilled.

Everything but the still proper was burned.  The still was brought to the courthouse.  Two trucks were used in hauling it in.

As the officers approached the still, the owners of the coasts fled in such haste that they forgot their coats.  The sheriff got them and immediately broadcast his reward. No arrests have been made.

The officers said they believed that confederates notified the men at the still just before the raid took place.

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