Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on March 12, 1931.
Home Brew at City Hall Fails to Tempt Samplers
Over at the city hall police station, Chief of Police Robert L. Felton and his police aids have an undying faith in humanity as a whole.
Reason for this statement is born out by the fact that for many days, nineteen bottles of near beer, taken in a raid on the Albert Schumacher place, near Chicago Mica company, have reposed in an open dry goods box in the council chamber, in plain view of everyone who comes in the main room of the city hall, with only a few newspapers to cover them, and no one has even attempted to molest them.
There has been no move on the part of Chief Felton to lock up the evidence, it being his belief that the public can be trusted. And the confidence of the chief in this respect has not received a set-back, despite the fact that hundreds of persons have set foot in the place, looked at the imposing array of “live ones” and were not tempted.
Formerly there were twenty bottles of the home brew, but Attorney J.J. McGarvey, for Schumacher, obtained one upon court order for analysis as to alcoholic content in preparation for defending his client.
