22 OTHERS NABBED MOTHER OF 13 HELD AS OPERATOR OF STILL

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: February 11, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

WASYIINGION POST FEB 1 1 1957
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22 Others Nabbed
I VIr IJ JN
Mother ?f ,.13 Held
As Operator of Still
Police and Federal agentsIley said there was a mass rush
broke up what they describe for the rear exits when police
"
'
as a
chitlin
and potato salad"
party at 2425 3d st. ne. yeste>-
day, and when the confusion
as all over they had:
? Smashed a 120-gallon
"moonshine" liquor still they
found in the basement of the
neat, two-story brick row house.
? Arrested the 38-year-old
home owner and mother of 13
children who said she had been
receiving $150 monthly relief
checks through the District
Welfare Department for about
six months.
? Rounded up 22 other per-
home of the party hostess,
Marie Borges, about 1 a. m.
yesterday.
Stickley said most of Mrs.
Borges' 13' children, ranging
from 14 months to 19 years of
age, were asleep upstairs at the
time.
Mrs. Borges' son, Marcellino,
19, however, fell down the sec-
ond-floor stairs atop Stickley at
one point, but Stickley, only
bruised, 'continued directing
the mopping-up operations,
police said. .
gallons of home-made whisky,
some 240 gallons of mash, a,
hydrometer, a quantity of sugar ,I
l
sessing numbers slips was Mrs.
Borges, who said she and her
husband separated'about a year
ago.
Apprehended as he was de
funnels and copper coiling, six;
60-gallon drums and one 40-parting through a rear door was
gallon drum. 'Edward Thomas Whittington,
Police Sgt. Samuel W. Stick WhI of pollge said. rs?. Borges' lbond; Whittington 3000, and
' ol,AZ04 D st x e w i al ien aia e of. M
was +aolkeil on nine uor Chiiss, $500, pending arraign-
yy ment today.
coun and as the" sus ecte de i It consisted of two 60-gallon
Whittin ton and Mrs..Bor es!
o tli Iigtiost l
~ unwere registered with having an
101 iu ni n ge out 40
n tTU s a- pas tered still keering
` allh s
g
u
l
moons in
n i ~{ }s t . c du 420 feet of copper coils encased * ism RY for sale arthout a lr-
was !?ttin a smaller cooling drum, jcense, selling whisky without
l of a license, having a still in un-
to
tic,kley estimated. ~'
h
i
a '."?'"."... r..,::r:.-_- `
ut
or
ze
o
maKIng
e said' t e`~ foun six, for
y cinder blocks with six jet burn-'.,,,,, .........
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k t .r, > were piped out through a gar [ taxable, a,, e? , r,aaa.s our
e~~,,dgu hose which led from the of prnl~e t attr po
t of i""""a tsasenient* w iidow St ckley and Federal ?,lcoho
clyto_ irrlse at deaf Tax Unit Agent Raymond F.
c ey asu. ? ing party, said 11js. Borges e><
feY ersons f.or- pressed surprise-at discovery of
feited $5'on disgrdgrly cob duct r the liquor still in her basement.
cliarges, police reported. $t.ick-` She had rent d the basement
le laid most 'of the arty space to Whit1~on for $30 a
ehants wgre_si}nE _luxlslr,month and, "di know what
ying cards and iistenFkg to he. was
doii drl~vn there,"
p iono rap, records wiien raid- police quotedMrs,. Borges as
diked in. saying.
The liquor still was round Police said W ittington was
behind a partition in t e base- arrested in a rai pn a.$20,000
home, at 4900 24ih at. ne. which
turned u an ;$5 Ion-per-day;
liquor still in qy mber, 1954.1
A Oistric grand jury later ig-
noo~d to charges against,
1Vhi'ttington.
Mickley said 'a, ders seized;;
~si?60-gallon drums and one',
40allon d um, containing
a#t tt.240_galrons o, mash from
ltr o es' ba e lent, along
glans nioaik ioe
a21_ is a"llpn
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