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SOLDIERS DESTROY BARREL
OF WHISKEY AT THE I.S. DEPOT
A barrel of whiskey which was in a car on the siding at the Illinois Southern depot was destroyed by the soldiers when its location was reported to military headquarters at St. Francois by Mrs. Hattie Harris Sunday.
Mrs. Harris started an investigation when she detected that her son, aged about 12 years, had been drinking. He confessed that he and several other boys had discovered the whiskey in the car and had obtained some of it by boreing a hole in the barrel. Several of the boys, all of whom were of tender years, got drunk.
After telephoning the soldiers, Mrs. Harris waited near the depot until the soldiers arrived and showed them the car in which the barrel of whiskey was stored. The boys in kahki knocked in the head of the barrel and poured the whiskey on the ground.
The whiskey was consigned to H. L. Siebert, a saloon keeper at Ste. Genevieve. It arrived in Flat River October 21, and was part of a shipment of freight that had gone astray.
Published by THE LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Nov. 9, 1917.
