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Collection: 1952 - Frank Bennett Fiske
Folder: 0000
Item: 00088
Title: "Two Gun" Richard James Hart (James Vincenzo Capone) with his rare collection of confiscated stills
Date: 1/7/1926
Creator: Fiske, Frank Bennett,--1883-1952
Inscription/Marks: [in red gouache on negative emulsion] "Two Gun" A J Hart with his rare collection Fiske Foto [in white on photograph] "Two Gun" A J Hart with his rare collection Fiske Foto [in blue ink on back of print 1952-00088 Hart, A. J. (Two Gun) with confiscated stills. [history-Officers make booze raids Sioux County Pioneer Thursday 01-07-1926 p01] Officers Make Booze Raid Get many victims besides lot of evidence and other paraphernalia. Superintendent E. D. Mossman, who insists upon keeping intoxicating liquors of all kinds off from the Standing Rock reservation has been making it very miserable for those engaged in the traffic during the past week and his activities will be continued until the reservation is as dry as the Sahara desert. He has as an able assistant, R. J. (Two-Gun) Hart, who is recognized as a most crafty enforcement officer. Their first arrest was an accident. Two young fellows, brothers, hailed them on the road between here and McLaughlin through in South Dakota, they being without gas. The enforcement officers gave them the gas and discovered them more or less intoxicated. Upon further investigation they found the men had booze upon them and they were induced to offer the officers a drink. And later they were able to get them to sell them two quarts of whiskey, real Canadian stuff, two for $15 or $8 per. They had about eight quarts with them but started from the Canadian border with 92 bottles and had made numerous trips. They were taken to Timber Lake and before a United States commissioner one was bound over to the United States court. The defendant is John A. Scherbinske and hails from Kulm. His car, a Chevrolet coupe was also confiscated. His partner, a brother, was found not implicated and was turned loose. The officers also picked up a Ford car in South Dakota. Four Indians being in it and there was found one half gallon of booze. The occupants were taken to Timber Lake for arraignment and the car confiscated. New Year’s eve, Mose Wilkie, Henry Stewart and Sidney Claymore happened to be at Solen at a dance and there picked up one, Alfred Jensen, with a bottle of moon. He was brought before Justice Thomas Short in Fort Yates and put up a bond of $300 to appear at the next term of district court. He lives across the line in Morton County. On December 20, Johannus Schulz, who lives northeast of McLaughlin, in South Dakota was arrested by the local officers and put under $1000 bond to appear in Corson County court. Here they grabbed a still, coil, 27 bottles of beer and paraphernalia in connection with operations. A raid was made in the vicinity of Selfridge Monday and seemed very successful. John Klingler was arrested and his place searched. There they got a still, six gallons of whiskey, 100 bottles of beer and mash. He appeared before G. W. Hokanson, U. S. Commissioner and was bound over to the U. S. Court His bonds of $1500 were furnished by Segur Robinson and W. H. Ordway signing. On the place of Barney Bonagofsky the officers got a still and mash. At Charles Arndt's two copper stills, coils and a small amount of whiskey and bottles. At the Charles Snyder place 45 bottles of beer was found and lots of empties. The last three named defendants were not at home but word left for them to appear here. They appeared later and put up bonds. Tuesday, Mr. Hart and Jesse Graybear took a circle up around Cannon Ball and with Farmer R. H. Shipman picked up Frank Slawa across the Missouri River from that point and confiscated a five gallon jug of moonshine. He was ordered to appear at Fort Yates and furnish a bond for his appearance in U. S. Court. The officers still are actively engaged in hunting out violations and there will probably be more arrests. All the officers engaged were deputy special officers and besides those mentioned above who have taken part in various raids were J. H. Brott, Eugene Bearking, Sam Red Pheasant, Jesse Graybear and Francis Mossman.
Summary: Two Gun Hart, Al Capone’s brother James Vincenzo Capone, stands in front of a display of alcohol stills, bottles and jugs that he and others confiscated during raids on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Red ID: PH_I_154012 Image ID: 111788 Image Notes: 1952-00088

Collection: 1952 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank Bennett Fiske
Date: 1880-1952

Summary: Includes prints and negatives of portraits, agriculture, education, wildlife, hunting, Frank Fiske studio portraits, and some views of South Dakota. Fiske’s Native American photographs include portraits, Indian gatherings and ceremonies, boarding schools, Indian houses and dwellings, and Native American agriculture. Fiske’s documentation of daily life on the reservation includes such shots as Sioux customers waiting for a Fort Yates trading store to open; a Sioux dance in the streets of Fort Yates; a plow issue before the agency boarding school; an encampment of tipis, including those traditionally painted; and three Indian men being taxied off the reservation to join the army in WWI.

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